Crime, Governance and Security

This course aims to provide students with an interdisciplinary, theoretical understanding social, legal, and political responses to crime, in order to encourage a critical appreciation of how risks, harms and threats are governed in different contexts. Students will examine the key features of different models of governing crime and security and consider the ideological, material, and institutional conditions which shaped them. The course will also account for recent and emerging trends that relate to the governance of crime and risk, specifically the neoliberal turn, the rise of the risk society, the 'end of history', the emergency of the regulatory state, digital transformations, and climate change. The course will use case studies of relevant issues in the Asia Pacific region to illustrate or analyse these models, traditions and trends.