Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

• understand the social harm perspective and its relationship to criminology

• critically examine the role of power, inequality and ‘the global’ in shaping crime and social harm

• apply learning of the social harm perspective to examples including ‘natural disasters’ such as Hurricane Katrina, as well as to imprisonment and the ‘War on Terror’

• illustrate how instances of crime and uncriminalised harms are globally connected

• critically analyse power and inequality, including the roles of powerful actors such as states and multinational corporations, to examine debates about crime and harm.