Description
Book SynopsisThis book addresses the challenges within teaching Criminology and Criminal Justice, for students studying and academics involved in designing and delivering courses at an undergraduate and postgraduate level. The book highlights a number of contemporary issues through a wide context of themes and reflections of practice. The chapters are arranged in thematic parts: firstly ‘the challenges of diversity and inclusion’ secondly ‘challenges of creating authentic learning environments', and lastly ‘the challenge of creating transformative conversation’. These themes discuss different teaching approaches and present materials which address questions relevant for meeting the challenges. The book focuses on the role and impact of teaching Criminology and Criminal Justice in the real world and explores debates which have autonomy in their questioning and overlapping themes. The narratives reflect upon others’ experiences and explore transformative learning and innovation in Criminology and Criminal Justice.
Table of ContentsPreliminaries
Editor Bios
Contributor Bios
Dedication
Acronyms
List of Figures
List of Tables
Introduction
Katie Strudwick and Suzanne Young
Part 1: The Challenges of Diversity and Inclusion
Chapter 1 Exploring the criminology curriculum – reflections on developing and embedding critical information literacy.
Kelly J. Stockdale, Rowan Sweeney, Clare McCluskey-Dean, Jodie Brown, Ismail Azam
Chapter 2 Teaching Criminal Justice as Feminist Praxis
Marian Duggan and Charlotte Bishop
Chapter 3 Chapter Teaching 'Race' in the Criminology Classroom: towards an anti-racist pedagogy
Lisa Long
Chapter 4 Chapter Promoting success for all in Criminology: Widening Participation and recognising difference.
Richard Peake
Part 2: The Challenges of Creating Authentic Learning Environments
Chapter 5 Putting the Cyber into Cybercrime Teaching
Ruth McAlister and Fabian Campbell West
Chapter 6 Visualising injustice with undergraduate smartphone photography
Phil Johnson
Chapter 7 Transforming Criminology: Strategies for Embedding ‘Employability’ Across the Criminology Undergraduate Curricula
Debbie Jones
Part 3: The Challenges of Creating Transformative Conversations
Chapter 8 Balancing Sympathy and Empathy in an Emotive Discipline
Helen Nichols & Victoria Humphrey
Chapter 9 Reasonably Uncomfortable: Teaching Sensitive Material Sensitively
Natacha Harding
Chapter 10 Decolonising the Curriculum: who is in the room?
Howard Sercombe, Carly Stanley, Keenan Mundine, Helen Wolfenden.
Conclusion: Pedagogical Principles for Criminology and Criminal Justice
Suzanne Young and Katie Strudwick
Index
