Advanced Criminological Theory

Criminology faces new and evolving issues in the study of crime and criminality, both as the discipline adapts to more inclusive notions of criminality and social-cultural knowledges, and as our society contends with emerging and urgent social harms. From environmental crises, disability and queer recognitions and reckonings, technological advancement and threat, and the growing consensus that current models of justice and criminality lack culturally contextual relevance to a Southern society, it is apparent criminology is changing, provoking need for new theoretical understandings. In this course, theory is discussed and analysed for suitability in combating these emergent harms and problems. Key theoretical insights are explored as we examine the social, political, and cultural intersections that have led us to this point, and how we must use theory to understand what criminology and the criminal justice system must face in the future.