This table is a version of a revised proforma we have developed for the toolkit specification document (the full version for our developer is also in the wiki). We would like to work with you on ‘mapping’ out the ‘exemplary module’, focusing on description and core content. It is a work in progress and might not suit all cases, but hopefully it gives you an idea of how this ‘mapping’ framework might extract information from your module handbook and weekly materials (depending on your format, this might not apply equally in all cases). These columns will broadly translate into the online version of this tool.
We would welcome your contribution in working through this map with your chosen module (the same module as the basis for the case study). Again it is a work in progress and we see this as a draft version with some further iteration, particularly around pedagogic vocab.As you work thought this we would welcome any comments; is the proposed structure easy to use? Is it going to be useful for you in describing your module(s) to make them easier to share? Please use the space below to add your comments, suggestions. For example, is it useful to separate learning outcomes from relation to subject benchmarks?
Element / Field menu content / Sample content
General description
a. Module title / Free text / Gender, Crime and Justice
b. author / Free text / Helen Jones
c. institution / Free text / Manchester Metropolitan University
d. Description / Free text / This module critically evaluates contemporary understandings of gendered crimes. Providing an understanding of the theoretical perspectives, definitions and understandings of the concept of gender and the crimes men and women are involved in, the unit will seek to assist students’ exploration of current attitudes towards gender within contemporary society and the criminal justice system.
e. Credit weighting / 10/15/20/25/30 / 20
f. Level / F4/F5/F6/F7 / F6
g. Relationship to programme course / Mandatory / elective / Elective
h. Name of syllabus or programme / Free text / Sociology, Criminology, Cultural Studies (SCCS)
i. Offered within joint or combined programme? / Yes / no / Yes
j. Mapping to JACS code / A controlled list of options of JACS codes TBC / ML9J: MLXH: L300
k. Mapping to subject benchmarks / See mapping doc to subject specific skills TBC / Uses Criminology benchmarks:
- An understanding of the key concepts and theoretical approaches that have developed and are developing in relation to crime, victimisation and responses to crime and deviance
Student handbook identifies the following:
Communication skills:
- communication in group work,
- making class presentations,
- research report writing.
- planning,
- applying study skills,
- organising your academic work,
- working under pressure,
- time management,
- meeting deadlines.
- interaction in group work,
- leadership,
- listening,
- sensitivity.
- literacy and numeracy,
- critical and analytical skills,
- library skills,
- information technology (IT) skills,
- problem solving,
- creativity,
- research skills,
- assessment methods.
l. Mapping to pedagogic vocab (to be advised) / Free text – but TBC following review by partners
m. Meta-tags / Free text / criminology; justice; gender, crime; masculinity; feminism
n. Learning outcomes / Free text - possible list TBC / 1. Students will be able to research and write about different feminist perspectives and their relevance to understanding the gendered nature of the crime problem.
2. Students will be able to research and write about theories of masculinity and their relevance to understanding the nature of the crime problem.
3. Students will be able to identify and discuss a number of substantive issues as they present themselves to the criminal justice system and the questions they pose for what we understand by justice.
4. Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the complex interplay between gender, race and class as variables that contribute towards experiences of crime and the criminal justice process.
o. Assessment type / TBC –exam / essay / report / group activity / reflection / 50% Coursework will take the form of collaborative writing between home students and students at another university also studyingGender, Crime and Justice. This is conducted over a number of weeks and requires ongoing engagement.
50% Examination
p. Delivery / TBC - weekly lecture / seminar / blended / online / face to face / A blended approach to delivery includes:
Face to face lectures
Face to face seminars
Online resources and readings
Online interaction and discussion groups
q. licence / Cc type / All materials are currently presented to MMU students behind the walled garden of the VLE
No CC licence currently exists for these materials.
Structure and core content
r. Module core materials description, repeated for each material i.e. weekly lecture / handout / activity. Each element will contain the main resource or material, with further optional rows beneath to show other components of the resource which could be disaggregated. This should help give an extra granular level of description within the module materials.
So in this draft, the description of the weekly materials and the further resources (such as reading lists) are drawn from the module handbook. For each exemplar module you may have to add or remove further rows below each weekly item (for example, if you use structured assessment as part of each material).
Again, please see this now as a first iteration of the mapping process – it may difficult to apply with any consistency across our materials, so your initial feedback on this process will be very valuable in developing this mapping framework and the version for the toolkit website.
When this mapping framework is presented in the toolkit, the links to the materials can be directed into JORUM as a persistent link (i.e. directly to the material). This can be added at a later stage.
File types TBC / I Content
r.1 / ppt / Lecture Introduction – Gender in the CJS
An overview of key themes, the structure of the course and the assessments.
r. 1.a / Reading list / Required readings:
Walklate, S. (2001) Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice. Willan. (Pages 1-15)
Wykes, M. and Welsh, K. (2008) Violence, Gender and Justice. London: Sage. (Chapter 2)
r.2 / ppt / Lecture Making sense of data I: Comparing Crimes
Looking at what type of statistics can usefully uncover issues of gender, data on arrest, conviction and prison populations, data on gendered crimes and how statistics might not reveal the whole story.
r. 2.a / Reading list / Required readings:
Chesney-Lind, M., & Pasko, L. (2004) Part 1. Girls, women and crime: selected readings. London: Sage.
Gelsthorpe, L. (1997) ‘Feminism and Criminology’, in M. Maguire, R. Morgan and R. Reiner, R. (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Criminology (2nd Ed). (Other editions are available)
Lomboroso, C. & Ferrero, W. (2003) ‘The criminal type in women and its atavistic origin’, in E. McLaughlin, J. Muncie and G. Hughes (Eds.) Criminological perspectives: essential readings. Sage, in association with the Open University (2nd Ed). (Other editions are available)
Wykes, M. and Welsh, K. (2008) Violence, Gender and Justice. London: Sage. (Chapter 4)
r.3 / Lecture Feminism I
Examining prostitution from liberal feminist and socialist feminist perspectives. Using examples in different criminal justice jurisdictions, the lecture looks at how different feminist perspective have influenced policy on prostitution.
r.3a / Readings:
Alder, C. & Worrall, A. (2004) Girls' Violence: Myths and realities. New York:State University of New York Press.
McIvor, G. (2003) Women Who Offend. London:Jessica Kingsley. Chapter 2.
Walklate, S. (2001) Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice. Willan. Pages 34 – 40.
r.4 / ppt / Lecture Feminism II
Examining how the perspective of radical feminism developed the concept of the continuum of sexual violence and how such perspectives have informed (and been informed by) activism.
r.4a / Reading list / Required readings:
Jones, H. and Cook, K. (2008) Rape Crisis: Responding to Sexual Violence. Lyme Regis: Russell House. (Chapter 1)
Munford, R. (2007) 'Wake Up and Smell the Lipgloss': Gender, Generation and the (A)politics of Girl Power, in S. Gillis, G. Howie and R. Munford (Eds.) Third Wave Feminism. Palgrave (pp266-276).
r.5 / ppt / Lecture Making Sense of Theory – Human Rights
This lecture takes a global approach to violence against women by focussing on United Nations treaties and conventions, specifically the Women’s Convention - Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
r.5a / Reading List / Required readings:
Jones, H. (2006) ‘Working Together: Local and Global Imperatives for Women in Mongolia’. Asia Europe Journal Vol. 4, (3): 417-430.
Jones, H. and Wachala, K. (2006) ‘Watching Over the Rights of Women’. Social Policy and Society. Vol 5, (1): 127-136.
Wykes, M. and Welsh, K. (2008) Violence, Gender and Justice. London: Sage. (Chapter 5)
r.6 / ppt / Lecture How far have we come? Making Sense of it All - Trafficking
To continue the discussion of how theory can influence policy at a national and international level, this lecture considers the issue of trafficking of women, how it is defined, how it is policed and how it is prosecuted.
r.6a / Reading List / Readings:
Jones, H. and Cook, K. (2008) Rape Crisis: Responding to Sexual Violence. Lyme Regis: Russell House. (Chapter 6)
Wykes, M. and Welsh, K. (2008) Violence, Gender and Justice. London: Sage. (Chapter 9)
r. 7 / ppt / Lecture Introduction to Term Two– Men in the Criminal Justice System
This lecture shows how the focus of the course turns to men and cultures of masculinity that underpin male crime, how it is policed and the implications for prevention and control of crime.
r.8 / ppt / Lecture Patriarchy: Historically and Culturally Contingent?
From defining patriarchy to considering criticisms of it as a concept, this lecture examines Connell’s 4 dimensions of patriarchy:
Power relations
Production relations
Emotional relations
Symbolic relations
r.8a / Reading list / Required readings:
Walby, S. (1990) Theorizing Patriarchy. London: WileyBlackwell. (Chapter 8).
Connell, R.W. (2002) Gender. London: Polity Press. (Chapter 7)
Wykes, M. and Welsh, K. (2008) Violence, Gender and Justice. London: Sage. (Chapter 5)
r.9 / ppt / Lecture Thinking About Men: Hegemonic Masculinity
This lecture considers the concept of hegemonic masculinity whilst acknowledging that ‘men’ do not form an homogeneous group. Crime is discussed as a way of ‘doing masculinity’.
r.9a / Reading List / Required readings:
Connell, R.W. (2005) Masculinities. Cambridge: Polity Press. (Chapter 3)
Messerschmidt, J. (2000) Becoming "Real Men"
r.10 / ppt / Lecture Gender, Crime and Risk
A risk society is not one that has become more hazardous or dangerous, it is a society preoccupied with the future which generates the notion of risk. This lecture considers theoretical debates around the concept of risk and how risk relates to fear and vulnerability.
r.10a / Reading list / Required readings:
Walklate, S. (2001) Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice. Cullumpton: Willan. Chapter 3.
r.11 / ppt / Lecture Gender, Crime and Violence
This lecture considers the extent to which the policing of violence against women is located at the intersection of gender, patriarchy, violence and justice. It takes a case study approach to illustrate how women are more at risk from violence by intimate ‘known’ men rather than from strangers.
r.11a / Reading list / Required readings:
Jones, H. and Cook, K. (2008) Rape Crisis: Responding to Sexual Violence. Lyme Regis: Russell House. (Chapter 5)
Jones, H. and Powell, J. (2006) ‘Old Age, Vulnerability and Sexual Violence: Implications for Knowledge and Practice’. International Nursing Review. Issue 53 (3): 211-216.
Walklate, S. (2001) Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice. Cullumpton: Willan. Chapter 5.
Wykes, M. and Welsh, K. (2008) Violence, Gender and Justice. London: Sage. (Chapter 5)
r.12 / ppt / Lecture Gender, Crime and Justice
Considers whether sentencing decisions made by the courts deliver justice to men or to women. Uses official statistics to demonstrate some gender gaps within the criminal justice system.
r.12a / Reading list / Required readings:
Jones, H. (2006) ‘Towards Rights: Useful Sources on Violence Against Women’. Social Policy and Society. Vol 5, (1): 161-165.
Walklate, S. (2001) Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice. Cullumpton: Willan. Chapter 6.
Wykes, M. and Welsh, K. (2008) Violence, Gender and Justice. London: Sage. (Chapter 7)
r.13 / doc / Student Handbook
r.14 / pdf / Syllabus Synopsis
r.15 / xerte / Overview of project assessment
Space for your comments, suggestions