Photograph of course leader
Dr Johann Koehler
j.koehler@lse.ac.uk
Room OLD 2.59


Crime, Justice, & Social Policy provides a detailed and critical introduction to the study of crime and criminal justice, through a focus on some of its constitutive ideas, institutions, practices, and participants. Lectures in the first half of term provide an overview of a criminological understanding of crime and deviance. Lectures in the second half of term provide an overview of a criminological understanding of justice policy. Throughout the course, particular emphasis is devoted to the historical, conceptual, and theoretical traditions that make up — and subvert — criminology’s canon.