Description
This assessment draws on themes from both halves of the module, and you are expected to incorporate relevant perspectives from the first half in your examination of specific criminal justice issues raised in the second half.
Select one of the six prompts below and critically discuss with reference to relevant module themes:
-To what extent and in what ways does a person’s social and economic background affect their likelihood of being a victim of a crime? Why is this criminologically significant?
-With reference to relevant criminological perspectives on inequality in the Criminal Justice system, to what extent are offenders from socially and/or economically marginalised backgrounds more likely to enter the Criminal Justice System?
-Critically examine how and why austerity affected policing strategies and contributed to the targeting of specific groups of people. How might this challenge conceptions of justice?
-To what extent does the disproportionate incarceration of people from socially and/or economically marginalised groups reflect a form of structural victimisation of those within the prison system?
-Critically discuss the extent to which those convicted of drug-related offences may be considered victims of structural and institutional conditions.
-Critically examine the extent to which child offenders within the Criminal Justice System may be victims of the criminal justice process?
Your report MUST incorporate academic literature. You must demonstrate robust engagement with relevant academic literature and incorporate it into a cohesive argument.
Please read brief added in additional materials, thank you! (UK WRITER PLEASE)
