Overview
- Discusses innovative Criminology teaching including visual teaching and putting the cyber into cybercrime teaching
- Explores teaching sensitively on a range of sensitive topics
- Speaks to those in Criminology, Criminal Justice and the broader Social Sciences & Law
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About this book
This 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.
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Keywords
- pedagogy
- Teaching Excellence Framework
- Office for Students
- Inclusion and Diversity
- Teaching Race
- Transformative Learning
- First Nations
- global south criminology
- Hidden Voices
- imprisonment
- Employability
- Visual teaching
- Cybercrime Teaching
- Widening Participation
- teaching social science
- teaching sociology
Table of contents (12 chapters)
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The Challenges of Diversity and Inclusion
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The Challenges of Creating Authentic Learning Environments
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The Challenges of Creating Transformative Conversations
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Reviews
“There was never a better time for a book of this kind. This edited collection reflects the global challenges and possibilities for all those in higher education involved in teaching criminology and criminal justice in the twenty-first century. It is informed by pedagogy and perhaps even more importantly it offers genuinely reflective and critical commentaries on teaching and learning in the discipline. Suzanne Young and Kate Strudwick are to be highly commended for bringing this collection together: a collection I highly recommend to all those engaged in the discipline.”
—Sandra Walklate, Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology conjoint with Professor of Criminology, Monash University, UK
“This ground-breaking text is a long overdue and invaluable resource in the vibrant HE field of Criminology and Criminal Justice. It is essential that effective learning and teaching is diverse, inclusive, authentic and transformative - the very foundations of this exciting book. Populated by leading experts and cutting-edge evidence, Suzanne Young and Kate Strudwick’s text is essential reading in the pursuit of a critical, reflective and engaging learning and teaching experience for both students and lecturers.”
— Stephen Case, Professor of Youth Justice, Loughborough University, UK
“This book is a long-awaited and a very welcome contribution to the field. Fabulous and contemporary collection of experiences, practices in teaching Criminology and Criminal Justice, relevant in any international context. It is an essential reading for criminologists who are interested in transformative learning and innovative teaching the 21st Criminology curriculum.”
— Anna Matczak, Lecturer in Comparative Criminology, The Hague University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands
“Kate Strudwick and Suzanne Young’s keen editorial eye has brought together into one collection a welcome slice of collective practical wisdom from contemporary criminologists. What binds its author’s together is an admirable concern for the quality of the student experience and with mentoring today’s criminologists as they enter the classroom for the first time. This excellent text will undoubtedly grace the bookshelves of many a criminology lecturer for years to come.”
— Marty Chamberlain, Professor, Teesside University, UK
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Suzanne Young is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice in the School of Law at the University of Leeds, UK. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Chair of the British Society of Criminology’s Learning and Teaching Network, and Co-Director of the Centre for Innovation and Research in Legal Education at the University of Leeds. Suzanne’s scholarship interests are in the areas of student engagement, active learning, and technology enhanced learning.
Katie Strudwick is Associate Professor of Criminology and Dean of Lincoln Academy of Learning and Teaching (LALT) at the University of Lincoln, UK. As a long-standing member of the British Society of Criminology’s Learning and Teaching Network and Senior Fellow of the HEA. Her research focuses upon student engagement, employability and partnerships with Policing, with a specific interest on co-creation and co-development of teaching and learning through Student as Producer.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Teaching Criminology and Criminal Justice
Book Subtitle: Challenges for Higher Education
Editors: Suzanne Young, Katie Strudwick
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14899-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-14898-9Published: 01 December 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-14901-6Published: 02 December 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-14899-6Published: 30 November 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 268
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Research Methods in Criminology, Critical Criminology, Education, general, Human Rights, Crime and Society, Higher Education