MA Transnational CrimeTransnational Crime includes activities that violate the laws of more than one country, for example money laundering, terrorist activities, illicit traffic in arms, environmental crimes, and illicit drug and people trafficking. The MA in Transnational Crime will allow you to explore practical and theoretical aspects of transnational criminal activities, including models and methods of detection, policing, social control and sanctions. A range of theoretical standpoints will enable students to understand western legal and social traditions and customs in order to develop a comparative framework; but students will also be encouraged to develop vocational and applied approaches. Themes on the MA include: the structure and nature of organised illicit trade and criminal enterprise; the concept of the risk society; responses to transnational crimes through policing initiatives, agreements and treaties; western legal practices and sentencing frameworks; critical enquiries into the effects of changing serious crime levels, terror-news, moral panics and the mobilisation of nations.

How the MA is OrganisedThe MA consists of four taught modules taken over one year by full-time students, or two years for part-time students. The Major Project is completed at the end of the taught part of the course. Teaching runs over two semesters of 12 weeks each, September to December and February to May. Weekly sessions of two hours usually take place Monday 4 to 6pm and Thursday 4 to 6pm.

empirical research or sustained theoretical investigation. Based on their initial project proposal students will be expected to negotiate a learning contract with their supervisor, which outlines title, research question, assessment weighting and criteria, and the form of the project.

Other Modules:Policing Transnational Crime: This module will explore the concept of the risk society in a global, abstract context, in relation to prevention and minimisation. Contemporary forms of policing and security will be evaluated against the backdrop of societies that are built on the notion of risk, its quantification and avoidance. Risk from the perspective of corruption within organisations tasked with managing cross border and transnational crime will also be considered.

Comparative Sentencing and Retribution: This module aims to identify and explore convergences and divergences in sentencing policies for serious and organised crimes, and their rationales in western countries. The module will explore legal traditions and the application of a variety of styles of theoretical penal theories, as well as sentencing frameworks; the range and justification for particular punishments within a selected range of jurisdictions and co-operation agreements between states.

Terror as Crime: This module will explore and evaluate the effects of changing crime levels and their contribution towards moral panics in contrast to the impact of more serious crime waves in societies and their collective or individual reactions. The notion of mobilising a nation through terror-information will be evaluated in relation to the recent adoption and acceptance of regular risk assessment and analysis measures, as well as propaganda.

Crime and Control in Late Modernity: This module will engage with contemporary and enduring theories of crime and deviance that are of primary importance to the concept of late modernity. Starting with the claim that modernity is now characterised by globalization, a heightened sense of risk, and reflexivity, we will focus on two broad themes of contemporary criminology: ‘governance, control, and risk’ and ‘cultural criminology’.

Semester 1

Compulsory Modules Optional ModulesOrganised Illicit Trade Policing Transnational Crime(30 credits) (30 credits)Postgraduate Major Project Or(60 credits) Crime and Control in Late Modernity (30 credits)Semester 2

Compulsory Modules Optional ModulesPostgraduate Research Comparative Sentencing andMethods (30 credits) Retribution (30 credits) Postgraduate Major Project Or(60 credits) Terror as Crime (30 credits)

Compulsory Modules:Organised Illicit Trade: This module explores the structure and nature of organised illicit trade, and facilitates discussions of the concept of criminal networks, including criminal opportunity and routine activities, to analyse different case studies. Case studies will include: financial crime, drug trafficking, human trafficking, child abuse, toxic waste and smuggling. Students will measure and evaluate the scale of illicit trade in order to analyse the regulatory issues involved and potential preventative mechanisms.

Postgraduate Research Methods: This module provides students with the research skills and techniques needed both to critically evaluate the literature they will be using in their Masters course and to put into practice in their own dissertations. It will explore the methodologies and methods applied in contemporary social science research to enable students to select an appropriate range for their own needs.

Major Project: This module enables students to demonstrate their ability to raise and investigate significant questions in relation to their specialist research area either through

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Entry RequirementsNormally we require a good honours degree in a subject area relevant for the MA (i.e. in Social Sciences), or in a related area. We do offer an interview for those applicants who do not meet the requirements but can demonstrate they have the academic ability to work at postgraduate level. Please contact the MA Convenor if you wish to enquire about the course. Our postgraduate students include those returning to study after a period away, recent graduates and international students. Many of our students work in addition to studying for a postgraduate qualification.

TeachingTeaching mainly takes place in a research seminar format, but may also include some lectures, guest speakers and debates. The MA tutors are available for one-to-one support and advice.

All teaching takes place on the Cambridge campus, with excellent library facilities, bookshops and other facilities close at hand. In addition to the taught modules, the Department and the Faculty run a series of research seminars to which staff and postgraduate students are invited.

AssessmentAssessment varies from module to module, but typically might consist of a 5,000 word essay plus a presentation of approx 20 minutes; a case study plus presentation, or a portfolio of activities to be submitted at the end of the module.

Colleen Moore Violent behaviour; justice and injustice through the courts; human trafficking; comparative criminology

Dr Sam Lundrigan Criminological geographic profiling systems; spatial behaviour of serial rapists; behaviour consistency of serial offenders

Dr Anna Markovska Transitional countries; serious crime; corruption; drug abuse

Julia Selman-Ayetey Law, the criminal justice process and ethical issues of policing; DNA database

Dr Liz Bradbury Social theory; gender studies; psychoanalysis; the Frankfurt School

Dr David Skinner Race and racism, the social and political aspects of scientific and technological

innovation; the relationship between the natural and social sciences; forensics, databases and surveillance; the changing management of public services

Professor Bronwen Walter Irish diaspora studies; trajectories of Irishness and whiteness; English/Irish hybridities; genealogies and citizenship

Dr Shaun le Boutillier Social theory; applied ethics; explanations of the relations between individual and society

Emma BrettPublic service; learning and education; equality and cultural diversity; barriers to learning

Julian Constable Learning and teaching in the post-compulsory education sector; police training methods

Contact

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