Teaching Criminology and Criminal Justice Challenges for Higher Education

1. Introduction.- Part 1: The Challenges of Diversity and Inclusion- 2. Exploring the criminology curriculum – reflections on developing and embedding critical information literacy.- 3. Teaching Criminal Justice as Feminist Praxis.- 4. Chapter Teaching 'Race' in the Criminology Classroom: towards an anti-racist pedagogy.- Part 2: The Challenges of Creating Authentic Learning Environments - 5. Chapter Promoting success for all in Criminology: Widening Participation and recognising difference.- 6. Putting the Cyber into Cybercrime Teaching.- 7. Visualising injustice with undergraduate smartphone photography.- Part 3: The Challenges of Creating Transformative Conversations - 8. Transforming Criminology: Strategies for Embedding ‘Employability’ Across the Criminology Undergraduate Curricula, - 9. Balancing Sympathy and Empathy in an Emotive Discipline.- 10. Reasonably Uncomfortable: Teaching Sensitive Material Sensitively.- 11. Decolonising the Curriculum: who is in the room? - 12. Conclusion: Pedagogical Principles for Criminology and Criminal Justice.

Suzanne Young is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice in the School of Law at the University of Leeds, UK. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Chair of the British Society of Criminology’s Learning and Teaching Network, and Co-Director of the Centre for Innovation and Research in Legal Education at the University of Leeds. Suzanne’s scholarship interests are in the areas of student engagement, active learning, and technology enhanced learning.

Katie Strudwick is Associate Professor of Criminology and Dean of Lincoln Academy of Learning and Teaching (LALT) at the University of Lincoln, UK. As a long-standing member of the British Society of Criminology’s Learning and Teaching Network and Senior Fellow of the HEA. Her research focuses upon student engagement, employability and partnerships with Policing, with a specific interest on co-creation and co-development of teaching and learning through Student as Producer.