Carcerality

at helping learners to appreciate punishment and detention as a complex social, political, historical, and economic phenomenon, rather than merely a purported crime-control measure. Equipping students with analytical tools, the subject promotes the development of a critical stance on how we as a society define, create, and perpetuate harm and social divisions. The subject offers students an opportunity to grow intellectually, becoming critical about public discourses and government policies concerning crime and punishment, whilst also facilitating checking one's own preconceptions and interrogating personal prejudices.

• 1Recognise, understand, and explain main social and penological debates about the nature, purpose, and effects of punishment and involuntary detention
• 2Demonstrate an awareness of key theoretical concepts and empirical data in discussion of social problems of crime, criminalisation, and punishment
• 3Identify and analyse the role of colonialism, punitiveness, gender, and inequality in criminalisation and incarceration of individuals and communities
• 4Evaluate and critique societal attachment to involuntary detention.