Teaching Criminology and Criminal Justice: Challenges for Higher Education [Hardcover]

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.

 

1. Introduction.- Part 1: The Challenges of Diversity and Inclusion- 2. Exploring the criminology curriculum  reflections on developing and embedding critical information literacy.- 3. Teaching Criminal Justice as Feminist Praxis.- 4. Chapter Teaching 'Race' in the Criminology Classroom: towards an anti-racist pedagogy.- Part 2: The Challenges of Creating Authentic Learning Environments - 5. Chapter Promoting success for all in Criminology: Widening Participation and recognising difference.- 6. Putting the Cyber into Cybercrime Teaching.- 7. Visualising injustice with undergraduate smartphone photography.- Part 3: The Challenges of Creating Transformative Conversations - 8. Transforming Criminology: Strategies for Embedding Employability Across the Criminology UndergraduatelF