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1. You have accurately understood the topic in all its aspects and your knowledge of supporting materials is thorough. Your work exhibits an advanced understanding of the topic and extensively connects your knowledge with supporting evidence.
2. You have thought about and interrogated these theories and concepts in a way that makes them your own. Your work exhibits the complexity of relevant debates and questions them persuasively and robustly.
3. You extensively engage with the reading list and show strong relevant independent research that furthers the module material. Your work uses ample high-quality sources which are both appropriate for your argument and far reaching beyond module material.
4. You have demonstrated insightful, independent thought. Your work reflects on and imaginatively interprets academic sources to evidence an individual and novel argument.
5. All necessary ideas are accurately cited and referenced in the Harvard style.
6. You have an engaging, academic writing style. Your work effectively communicates your point, is clearly structured, and grammatically and syntactically correct.
**Assignemnt**
Produce a 10-minute presentation that addresses the following prompts:
Using relevant examples, critically examine the extent to which institutional and structural factors contribute to disproportionate exposure to the criminal justice system (for instance: stop-and-search rates, arrest rates, incarceration rates, etc.) for people from minority ethnic backgrounds in the UK.
*** Your slides should be appropriately referenced and MUST include in-text citations. You MUST include a bibliography at the end of your slides. You must ensure that your presentation incorporates material from a variety of academic resources (e.g. journal articles, books, etc.). You must provide a bibliography at the end of your slides submission that adheres to the Harvard referencing style.
**Reading list**
1. *Disproportionate and discriminatory: reviewing the evidence on police stop and search in The Modern Law Review
Article by Ben Bowling; Coretta Phillips
2. *Stop and Search in England: A Reformed Tactic or Business as Usual? in British Journal of Criminology
Article by Joel Miller 2010
3. *Sociological Engagements: Institutional Racism and Beyond in Sociology
Article by Karim Murji 2007
4. *Race and criminal justice
Book by Hindpal Singh Bhui 2009
5. Ethnicities, racism, crime and criminal justice in The Oxford handbook of criminology
Chapter by Coretta Phillips; Ben Bowling
6. The measurement of racial and ethnic identity in International Journal of Intercultural Relations
Article by Cookie White Stephan; Walter G. Stephan
7. What Does “Black” Mean? Exploring the Epistemological Stranglehold of Racial Categorization in Critical Sociology
Article by David L. Brunsma; Kerry Ann Rockquemore
8. Are Racial Categories Racist? in Research in African Literatures
Article by Mosley, A. 1997
9. Police-initiated contacts: young people, ethnicity, and the ‘usual suspects’ in Policing and Society
Article by Juan José Medina Ariza
10. The Sociology of Discrimination: Racial Discrimination in Employment, Housing, Credit, and Consumer Markets in Annual Review of Sociology
Article by Devah Pager; Hana Shepherd
11. Race, economic inequality, and violent crime in Journal of Criminal Justice
Article by Lisa Stolzenberg; David Eitle; Stewart J. D’Alessio
***This assessment addresses the programme learning outcomes indicated in BOLD below. There must be evidence of your attempt to address these learning outcomes in your work. Please view the programme learning outcomes relevant to your programme of study.***
BA Criminology with Police Studies
Apply criminological theories to a range of social and/or policing issues
Explain and evaluate complex social and policing problems in terms of criminological theories of crime, class, victimisation and responses to crime and deviance
Identify the value of the discipline of criminology and police studies to working environments
Appraise critically political and social processes of victimisation and criminalisation in light of criminological theories
Demonstrate how qualitative and quantitative research methods are used to generate evidence and identify an appropriate, ethical, strategy for specific research problems
Critically reflect on your own progress as a criminology with police studies undergraduate
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