Module SOC3127 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
SOC3127: Crimes of the Powerful
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Whilst the precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover all or some of the following topics:
- environmental harms and crimes;
- state crime and state terrorism;
- financial crimes;
- corruption;
- deregulation and crime;
- poverty;
- policy solutions.
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
|---|---|---|
| 22 | 128 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
| Category | Hours of study time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled learning and teaching activity | 22 | 11 x 2 hour seminars |
| Guided independent study | 22 | Preparation and reading for seminars |
| Guided independent study | 42 | Preparation and reading for presentation |
| Guided independent study | 10 | Additional reading/research |
| Guided independent study | 54 | Preparation for essays |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
• Barak, G. (2015) (ed.) The Routledge international handbook of the crimes of the powerful, Oxford: Routledge
• Barak, G. (2017). Unchecked Corporate Power: Why the Crimes of Multinational Corporations are routinized away and what we can do about it. Routledge.
• Carroll, W. K. (2013). The making of a transnational capitalist class: Corporate power in the 21st century. Zed Books Ltd..
• Chambliss, W., Michalowski, R., Kramer, R. (2010) State crime in the global age, Cullompton : Willan Publishing
• Clinard, M., & Yeager, P. (2011). Corporate crime (Vol. 1). Transaction Publishers.
• Gobert, J., & Punch, M. (2003). Rethinking corporate crime. Cambridge University Press.
• Stanley, E. and McCulloch, J. (2013) (eds.) State Crime and Resistance, London: Routledge
• Hartley, R. D. (2008). Corporate crime: a reference handbook. ABC-CLIO.
• Michalowski, R. J., & Kramer, R. C. (2006). State-corporate crime: Wrongdoing at the intersection of business and government. Rutgers University Press.
• Miller, D., & Dinan, W. (2007). A century of spin: How public relations became the cutting edge of corporate power. Pluto Press.
• Sklair, L. (1997). Social movements for global capitalism: the transnational capitalist class in action. Review of international political economy, 4(3), 514-538.
• Sklair, L. (2001). The transnational capitalist class (Vol. 306). Oxford: Blackwell
• Slapper, G., & Tombs, S. (1999). Corporate crime. Longman.
• Simpson, S. S. (2002). Corporate crime, law, and social control. Cambridge University Press.
• Tilly, C. (1985). War making and state making as organized crime. Violence: A reader, 35-60. https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/51028/256.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
• Tombs, S. and Whyte, D. (2015) The Corporate Criminal. Why corporations must be abolished, London: Routledge
• Whyte, D. (Ed.). (2009). Crimes of the powerful: A reader. Open University Press.
• Whyte, D. (2015) (ed.) How Corrupt is Britain? London: Pluto Press
