Gender, Sexuality and Criminal Justice

• Credit value: 30 credits at Level 7
• Convenor: Professor Sarah Lamble 
• Assessment: a 3200-word essay or policy analysis (80%) and an oral presentation and 800-word commentary (20%)

In this module we introduce you to a range of contemporary debates and methodological approaches that explore the interface between gender, sexuality and criminal justice. We proceed by examining a series of case studies that explore a range of different perspectives on longstanding and contemporary debates in the field.

The structure of the module is designed to develop a substantial critical study of the contribution that gender and sexuality studies have made to an understanding of crime, criminal justice and criminological issues using an interdisciplinary perspective.

Indicative syllabus

• Gender, sexuality and the subject of criminal justice
• Gendered, classed, racialised deviance: social-legal constructions of criminality
• Gendering carceral logics: the case for gender-responsive prisons?
• Captive genders: sex segregation and transgender imprisonment
• Governing autonomy, policing sexuality: the case of S/M
• Defining gendered harm: the extreme pornography debate
• Sexual violence and the meaning of rape
• Gender, sexuality and state crime: sexual violence as a weapon of war
• Saving women, saving gays?: the sexual politics of the war on terror
• Regulating prostitution and the global trafficking debate
• Gender justice beyond the law: community responses to intimate violence