Unit CRIMINOLOGY

Course

Investigation and security sciences

Study-unit Code

40003109

Curriculum

In all curricula

Teacher

Sabina Curti

Teachers

Sabina Curti

Hours

54 ore - Sabina Curti

CFU

Course Regulation

Coorte 2019

Offered

2020/21

Learning activities

Caratterizzante

Area

Discipline sociologiche

Academic discipline

SPS/12

Type of study-unit

Obbligatorio (Required)

Type of learning activities

Attività formativa monodisciplinare

Language of instruction

Italian

Contents

1. CRIMINOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY: FROM CRIMINAL TO CRIMINAL, FROM CRIMINAL TO INSURANCE AND TO THE PENALTY OF CRIMINALITY.
2. THE CROWD IN THE ITALIAN FRENCH DEBATE: EPISTEMOLOGY AND METHODOLOGY.
3. CRITICAL OF THE CROWD: SUGGESTION, FEAR AND POLICE.

Reference texts

1. S. Curti, Criminologia e sociologia della devianza. Un'antologia critica, CEDAM-Wolters Kluwer 2020 (terza edizione).

2. S. Curti (a cura di), La folla. Continuità e attualità del dibattito italo-francese, Bulzoni 2019.

3. S. Curti, Critica della folla, Pearson 2018.

Educational objectives

PART ONE
1. Criminology and sociology: epistemological, methodological and phenomenological issues. Scientific and social utility of criminological theories.
2. Crime and Classical School.
3. Crime and Criminal in Positivism
4. Crime and sociological research
5. The fear of crime and insecurity. The government of fear.

SECOND PART - The crowd in italian-french debate
1. Scipio Sighele; 2. Gustave Le Bon; 3. Pasquale Rossi; 4. Gabriel Tarde; 5. Vincenzo Miceli.

PART THREE - The crowd in contemporary debate
1. Etymology, epistemology and methodology of the crowd; 2. Psychological status and state of exception; 3. The false question of the soul of the race; 4. Active minorities; 5. Elias Canetti: from regression to altruism; 6. Social Movements; 7. The digital swarm; 8. The Right to Meet in Italy; 9. Old and new collective strategies; 10. The relationship between crowds and police in Italy; 11. Suggestion, fear, and police.

Prerequisites

Teaching methods

Frontal lessons
Seminars
Seminar frontal lectures with audiovisual
VHS and DVD projection

Other information

Info exam: http://www.fissuf.unipg.it/didattica/calendari-esami

Learning verification modality

Oral Exam

Info for disabled and DSA students: http://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa

Extended program

The course is divided into three essential parts.

In the first part we examine criminological theories, with particular attention to those of the sociological field and with a particular focus on the question of the "government of fear". At first, in an extended and analytical way, the course deals with the origins and developments of criminology as science (from an epistemological, methodological and phenomenological point of view).

In the second part we explore the theme of the crowd and collective behavior, linked to the issue of security and public order, with particular attention to the scientific origin of this subject of investigation in the field of social sciences.

The third part investigates the phenomenon of the crowd through a critical itinerary. Particular attention will be given to the analysis of the three devices of the crowd: suggestion, fear and police.