Unit CRIMINOLOGY
- Course
- Investigation and security sciences
- Study-unit Code
- 40003109
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Sabina Curti
- Teachers
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- Sabina Curti
- Hours
- 54 ore - Sabina Curti
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2022
- Offered
- 2023/24
- 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 CRIME TO THE CRIMINAL, FROM CRIME TO IN-SECURITY AND FEAR OF CRIME.
2. ANALYSIS OF CRIMINAL BEHAVIOUR: PROCESS OF VIOLENCE AND VIOLENT COSMOLOGIES. THE CASE OF STEFANIA ALBERTANI
3. SOCIOLOGY OF PRISON AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE - Reference texts
- Frank P. III Williams, Marilyn D. McShane, Criminology Theory, Routledge.
- Educational objectives
- PART ONE (institutional)
1. Criminology and sociology: epistemological, methodological and phenomenological issues. Scientificity and social utility of criminological theories.
2. Crime and the classical school.
3. Crime and the criminal in positivism.
4. Crime and sociological research
5. Fear of crime and in-security. The government of fear.
6. The effects of Covid 19 on crime.
PART TWO (monograph).
A) 1. Symbolic interactionism and violence. Elements and tools. Lonnie Athens' perspective. 2. Criminal and violent acts. 3. Process of violentization. 4. Violent cosmologies. 5. The Albertani case.
B) Organized crime and mafias.
C) Prison.
D) Restorative justice and criminal mediation. - Prerequisites
- No
- Teaching methods
- Lectures
Interactive seminars
Open lectures with audiovisuals
VHS and DVD screenings
Reflexivity exercises - Other information
- In-depth seminars on the topics of deviance and crime will be held during the course.
For information on support services for students with disabilities and/or DSA visit http://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa
Students with disabilities and/or DSA are requested to contact the lecturer at the beginning of the course.
"In the event that the student intends to take the exam in a year prior to the year scheduled in the study plan, it is recommended that he/she attends the cycle of lectures and takes the exam in the first useful call after the lectures have ended, thus respecting the semester of the teaching schedule". - Learning verification modality
- The test will consist of an examination to assess:
- the understanding and knowledge of criminological theories, the ability to be able to place them historically and to explain the methods used;
- the ability to critically analyse the issues addressed from a scientific, ethical and social point of view;
- the ability to use sociological and criminological language in relation to the phenomena under investigation.
The mode of examination will be agreed upon in the first few classes and then publicized in an appropriate notice. - Extended program
- The course is divided into two essential parts.
The first part examines criminological theories, with a focus on those in the sociological field. At first, in an extended and analytical manner, the course deals with the origins and developments of criminology as a science (from epistemological, methodological and phenomenological perspectives).
In the second part, the perspective of radical symbolic interactionism (in the declination of Lonnie Athens, Adolfo Ceretti and Lorenzo Natali) will be considered in order to analyze the process by which people become criminals and enact violent behavior. Special attention will be given to the "Albertani case." The basic elements of the sociology of prison and restorative justice will be provided. Another thematic focus will be on organized crime, with a special methodological bent.