Unit SOCIOLOGY OF LAW
- Course
- Degree in law
- Study-unit Code
- 05091606
- Location
- PERUGIA
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Stefano Anastasia
- Teachers
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- Stefano Anastasia
- Hours
- 42 ore - Stefano Anastasia
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2013
- Offered
- 2017/18
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Filosofico-giuridico
- Academic discipline
- IUS/20
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The course introduces to the sociological study of law via different theoretical approaches, such as institutionalism, critical criminology and feminist theory, and the analysis of a number of social issues, such as rights, the legal discipline of migrations, criminal justice and incarceration.
- Reference texts
- A. Cottino (ed.), Lineamenti di sociologia del diritto, Bologna, Zanichelli, 2016, plus, by choice, one of the following:
S. Anastasia, D. Falcinelli, M. Anselmi, Il populismo penale. Una prospettiva italiana, Padova, Cedam, 2015;
G. Campesi, Polizia della frontiera. Frontex e la produzione dello spazio europeo, Roma, DeriveApprodi, 2015;
C. D'Elia, G. Serughetti, Libere tutte. Dall'aborto al velo, donne nel nuovo millennio, Roma, minimum fax, 2017;
V. Ferraris, Immigrazione e criminalità, Roma, Carocci, 2012;
T. Pitch, Contro il decoro, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2013;
V. Scalia, Le filiere mafiose. Criminalità organizzata, rapporti di produzione, antimafia, Roma, Ediesse, 2016 - Educational objectives
- The course aims to stimulate the critical skills of students in relation to the legal phenomenon starting from the ambivalent relationships that production and application of law have with social changes and claims.
- Prerequisites
- To take the exam of Sociology of Law, students must have taken the exam of Philosophy of Law
- Teaching methods
- The course will be developed into a first part of frontal lessons devoted to object and method of sociological study of law and a second part of seminars on specific sociological-juridical research fields to which students will be actively involved
- Other information
- The course of Sociology of Law, together with that of the Executive Criminal Justice, contributes to the realization of the Penitentiary Law Clinic of the Department of Law at the University of Perugia
- Learning verification modality
- The test consists of an oral interview on the topics discussed during the course and examined in-depth through the suggested texts. During the test, the level of knowledge, comprehension and synthesis achieved by the student is verified, as well as that of communicating what is gained with method, language and exposure properties. The duration of the test varies according to the course of the interview.
- Extended program
- The law in sociological perspective: social normativity and legal normativity. Social change and law changes. The production process of law and its actors (social and professional). The ambivalence of law between freedom and social control.
Case studies of the function of law as a social control instrument.