Module details
- Offered to 1st years
- Tuesdays 16.00-18.00
- 8 weeks (autumn or spring term)
- Planned delivery: On campus (South Kensington)
- Non-credit only
This module will explore the causes of crime, with a particular focus on social, cultural, biological, psychological and environmental factors.
The module is highly interdisciplinary. Criminology theories will be integrated with those from other social sciences, such as law or sociology (e.g. anomie theory), and those from STEM disciplines, such as genetics, neuroscience and psychiatry.
The immediate learning objective is to provide you with an understanding of crime as a complex human behaviour and how environmental and genetics factors can enable or facilitate it. The ultimate learning objective is to encourage humane perceptions of offenders and science-based conceptions of crime.
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Contact the lecturer
Michelle Hammond
michelle.hammond@imperial.ac.uk