Crime, Gender and Sexuality - SOC00059H
Module summary
What is the significance of gender and sexuality to understanding crime and deviance in contemporary societies? In this module, we introduce you to a range of theoretically informed socio-legal accounts of sexual offences and behaviours.
Module will run
| Occurrence | Teaching period |
|---|---|
| A | Semester 2 2025-26 |
Module aims
What is the significance of gender and sexuality to understanding crime and deviance in contemporary societies? In this module, we introduce you to a range of theoretically informed socio-legal accounts of sexual offences and behaviours. You will gain insight into how these sexual offences and behaviours have provoked, and continue to provoke, high levels of anxiety and concern in the social world. We will engage with historical and contemporary responses to these offences and consider the effectiveness of various strategies of social control in policing and regulating both formally and informally gender and sexuality.
Module learning outcomes
Demonstrate your understanding of sociological and criminological approaches to sexuality and gender
Apply sociological theories and concepts to a number of different substantive issues around gender, sexuality and sexual offences
Critically discuss formal and informal social responses to crimes related to gender and sexuality
Articulate your understanding of how strategies of formal and informal social control shape practices and identities related to gender and sexuality
Analyse how legislation, state policies and policing strategies shape the regulation of gender and sexuality in contemporary societies
Indicative assessment
| Task | % of module mark |
|---|---|
| Essay/coursework | 100 |
Special assessment rules
None
Indicative reassessment
| Task | % of module mark |
|---|---|
| Essay/coursework | 100 |
Module feedback
For formative work students will receive feedback on how to improve their skills in areas that will contribute towards their summative assessment. This formative provides practice for the summative tasks, which are in line with MLO 1-5.
For summative work - essay (3,000 words) - students will receive an overall mark and grading according to clearly defined criteria for assessing their knowledge, skills and abilities in line with MLO 1-5. They will also receive written feedback showing areas in which they have done well, and those areas in which they need to improve that will contribute to their progress.
Indicative reading
Johnson, P. and Dalton, D. (2012) Policing Sex. Routledge.