IR4582 Prison Violence & Resistance

Academic year

2024 to 2025 Semester 2

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

30

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SCQF level

SCQF level 10

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Planned timetable

Tuesday 2pm - 3pm

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Module coordinator

Dr M M B Shwaikh

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Module Staff

Dr Malaka Shwaikh

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Module description

Today, prisons are the response to poverty, drugs, and political dissent. Over the summer of 2020, the Black Lives Matter movement shows us how violent policing and incarceration disproportionately target people of colour, especially Black people. This module confronts this history and its contemporary continuities and invite students to imagine a world without prisons. It is also an opportunity to investigate critically the efficacy and functions of prison reforms.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

BEFORE TAKING THIS MODULE YOU MUST PASS IR2005 AND PASS IR2006

Assessment pattern

Examination = 50%, Coursework = 50%

Re-assessment

3-hour Written Examination =100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1 1h lecture (X11 weeks), 1 1h tutorial (X10 weeks), 2 consultation hours (X11 weeks)

Scheduled learning hours

141

The number of compulsory student:staff contact hours over the period of the module.

Guided independent study hours

163

The number of hours that students are expected to invest in independent study over the period of the module.

Intended learning outcomes

  • Exhibit inter-disciplinary understanding of prisons' functions and impacts
  • Apply knowledge about the diverse roles and functions of prisons through empirical engagement with several case studies
  • Critically analyze prisons as sites of resistance and political struggle
  • Relate critical understandings of prison contexts to inter-disciplinary approaches to continuities and effects of racism, colonialism, and patriarchy
  • Analytically and critically understand and center discussion of justice alternatives, including arguments in favor of prison abolition