Criminologies of Disobedience

Introduction
Dr Alex Fanghanel
a.n.d.fanghanel@greenwich.ac.uk
 Overview

• Overview of the course, assessment and

activities
• Key originary concepts
 Disobedience

• Failure or refusal to obey rules or someone in

authority
 By the end of the course
• 1. Demonstrate increased awareness of the
relationship between the Criminal Justice
System and disobedient practice
• 2. Observe and reflect on disobedient practice
in a range of social contexts and through a
range of theoretical lenses
• 3. Explore contemporary concerns about crime,
justice and punishment in the context of
disobedient practice.
 Assessments
• Formative: Essay plan Word limit: 500 words
Submission: Turnitin and anonymous.
• Deadline: 18th November 2020 23.59h
• Summative Essay Word limit: 2500 words
Submission: Turnitin and anonymous (further
instructions available on Moodle) Marking
criteria/FAQ: on page 20 Deadline:
• Wednesday 10th December 2020 23.59h
• Write an essay about the politics of
disobedience as resistance using examples
from the course to illustrate your discussion.
The exact wording of the question will be down
to you
• This assessment will be discussed in more
detail in week 7 and online using moodle.
• Should you wish, you can request an individual
meeting to discuss your feedback once the
essays have been returned
 Employability skills
• Develop global social awareness
• Develop critical thinking skills, investigative
skills and the ability to experiment
• Understand the capacities and the limits of
the CJS
• Manage your own project (feeds into
dissertation)
Week 8: Disobedient Practice Workshop

• 'Verstehen'scholarship (Ferrell, 1998)

• Observe or participate in a disobedient
practice, IRL (in real life)or represented
elsewhere
• Risk Assessment Week 5
• Compile fieldnotes which you can use in your
essays.
The Rights and
Duties of the
Individual in
relation to
Government,
1848
What is disobedient practice?
 Useful concepts...
Belonging - Exclusion
Public - Private
 Useful concepts...
Discipline - Governmentality Transgression - Subversion
 Summary
• Aim of this course is to acquire skills to analyse
the status quo and to imagine ways it might be
different
• Come to class having done the reading and
with an open mind!