Gender, Crime and Deviancy: Britain c. 1860-1960

The course aims to examine the ways in which ideas about gender, sexuality and citizenship informed definitions of criminality and deviancy in Britain in the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It explores a set of key debates concerning the nature of regulation in the modern state as well as focusing on specific examples - the policing of juvenile delinquency, homosexuality and prostitution - in order to examine the relationship between expert opinion, popular culture, social policy and social action. A range of textual and visual artefacts are examined - including film, photography, fiction, autobiography and the popular press - to consider the significance of criminal narratives in the shaping of gendered, sexual and national identities.   Credit level: 11 Year taken: Postgraduate SCQF credits: 20

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