This course combines crime history and gender history to explore many different themes in British and North American social history from 1880 – 1980. Each week will be based around a different topic with key texts to discuss. The topics include: Policing; sentencing; punishment; media and moral panics; youth crime and gangs; domestic violence; the policing of sexuality, prostitution, alcohol and drugs. The importance of key themes such as gender, class and race will be emphasised throughout the course and the differences and/or similarities between Britain and North America will be discussed each week.

Course Outline

Week 1: Introduction

• Introductions and information
• Discussion about criminal history and gender history methodologies – history from bellow
• Changes in the understanding of the causes of crime

Week 2: Policing Crime

• History of the Police in Britain and North America 
• Trends in crime patterns and sentencing
• Women Police

Week 3: Punishment

• Theory - Foucault, Crime and Punishment and Garland, Punishment and Welfare
• History of Prisons
• History of Probation
• History of corporal punishment and the death penalty

Week 4: Domestic Violence

• Violent crime in the public and domestic spheres
• Wife assault
• Child abuse

Week 5: Crime and Sexuality

• Criminalisation of homosexuality and deviant sexuality
• Controlling venereal disease

Week 6: Prostitution

• Policing of prostitution
• Experiences of prostitution

Week 7: Youth crime, Gangs and drugs  

• Juvenile delinquency
• Prohibition in the USA
• Gangs and gangsters
• ‘War on drugs’

Week 8:  Media and crime

• Press reporting and sensational crime
•  Moral panics

This course combines crime history and gender history to explore many different themes in British and North American social history from 1880 – 1980. Each week will be based around a different topic with key texts to discuss. The topics include: Policing; sentencing; punishment; media and moral panics; youth crime and gangs; domestic violence; the policing of sexuality, prostitution, alcohol and drugs. The importance of key themes such as gender, class and race will be emphasised throughout the course and the differences and/or similarities between Britain and North America will be discussed each week.

Course Outline

Week 1: Introduction

• Introductions and information
• Discussion about criminal history and gender history methodologies – history from bellow
• Changes in the understanding of the causes of crime

Week 2: Policing Crime

• History of the Police in Britain and North America 
• Trends in crime patterns and sentencing
• Women Police

Week 3: Punishment

• Theory - Foucault, Crime and Punishment and Garland, Punishment and Welfare
• History of Prisons
• History of Probation
• History of corporal punishment and the death penalty

Week 4: Domestic Violence

• Violent crime in the public and domestic spheres
• Wife assault
• Child abuse

Week 5: Crime and Sexuality

• Criminalisation of homosexuality and deviant sexuality
• Controlling venereal disease

Week 6: Prostitution

• Policing of prostitution
• Experiences of prostitution

Week 7: Youth crime, Gangs and drugs  

• Juvenile delinquency
• Prohibition in the USA
• Gangs and gangsters
• ‘War on drugs’

Week 8:  Media and crime

• Press reporting and sensational crime
•  Moral panics

This course investigates conflicts, crises and their resolutions in the context of global history. Examples of conflicts in the recent past are chosen from the Mediterranean, the northern African and the Scandinavian regions. Life cycles of crises are introduced together with a concrete and unique perspective of explaining how religion, tribalism, ethnic and national conversations between also non-traditional leaders have influenced crises management related work in the past. Against historical examples the course reviews the mediation tracks pursued today. Case studies and topics include Finnish indigenous Saami peoples’ experiences; fragile post-colonial states and history of peace mediation efforts in Somalia; the significance of trauma and resolution in conflicts; healing of community relationships as well as history and memory. In addition to lectures on historical crises and resolutions in recent history, this course discusses how history of diplomacy continues to influence today´s world politics. Key topics are: crises, crises management, statelessness, stateness, tribal communities, women in conflicts, armed groups in conflicts, post-colonialism; unstable states and history, the Mediterranean, Lapland and global history.

Thu 25.1.  16:15-17:45 (Kullaa)

Tue 30.1. and Thu 1.2.  16:15-17:45 (Kullaa)

Tue 6.2. and Thu 8.2.  16:15-17:45 (Pentikäinen and Kullaa) (Pentikäinen)

Tue 13.2. and Thu 15.2. 16:15-17:45 (Kullaa)

Tue 20.2. 16:15-17:45  (Jacobson) (Kullaa present)

Tue 27.2. and Thu 1.3. klo 16:15-17:45 and Fri 2.3.  10:15-11:45 (Kullaa) (Pentikäinen) (Pentikäinen plus Kullaa final lecture).

(2.3. final lecture)

The aim of the course is to examine, how ideas of identity are created, reinforced and modified in European history. This question will be studied from different viewpoints and time periods. The focus will be on the questions of language, politics and religion. These questions will be examined in different time periods and topics. Students will learn to use key concepts concerning European identity in history. Course takes place in web-based international and local study groups.

Prerequisites:

Students are required to have access to the Internet and possess elementary computer skills. They must be able to communicate in English, in writing.

Learning outcomes:

* acquire an understanding of different definitions of the concept of identity in history
* acquire an in-depth knowledge of a specific topic concerned with identity in history
* obtain insights into additional topics concerned with identity in history
* acquire an in-depth knowledge of a specific theme related to identity in history
* obtain insights into additional themes related to identity in history
* obtain the capability to comprehend and share specific points of view regarding identity in history and to use the communication and knowledge sharing skills that support it.

Competences:

* acquire awareness of and respect for points of view deriving from other national or cultural backgrounds
* obtain skills in problem identification and solving
* obtain skills in communication and knowledge sharing
* obtain skills in communicating in a foreign language
* acquire a concern for quality
* become acquainted with the pedagogical tools of e-Learning
acquire an ability to use computer and internet resources and techniques

Mode of teaching: The course will be conducted in the Internet-based learning platform Moodle (Uni. of Turku) and in local study groups. The course will be organised at both local and international levels so that there will be mixed groups. Assignments and presentations: Workshops, on-line forum discussions, analyses of primary-source material and course readings.

Registration for the course start on December 12. 2017 and ends on January 22. 2018.