Unit Criminology and the Sociology of deviance
- Course
- Investigation and security sciences
- Study-unit Code
- A003410
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Sabina Curti
- Teachers
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- Sabina Curti
- Hours
- 36 ore - Sabina Curti
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2023
- Offered
- 2023/24
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- SPS/12
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- CRIMINOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY: FROM CRIME TO CRIMINAL, FROM CRIME TO IN-SECURITY AND FEAR OF CRIME. THE COVID 19 PANDEMIC IN ITALY: THE EFFECTS ON CRIME.
- Reference texts
- F.P. Williams III, M.D. McShane, Devianza e criminalità, il Mulino 1999.
- Educational objectives
- 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 Pandemic on Crime. - Prerequisites
- Elemental knowledge of general sociology
- Teaching methods
- Lectures
Interactive seminars
Open seminar-style lectures with audiovisuals
Reflexivity exercises - Other information
- In-depth seminars on the topics of deviance and crime will be conducted during the course.
For information on support services for students with disabilities and/or DSA visit http://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa
Male and female students with disabilities and/or DSAs are asked to contact the lecturer at the beginning of the course.
"In the event that the student intends to anticipate the exam in a year prior to the one scheduled in the study plan, it is recommended that he/she attend the lecture series and take the exam in the first useful call after the lectures themselves 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, to explain the methods used and the results obtained ;
- the ability to critically analyze the issues addressed from scientific, ethical and social perspectives;
- the ability to use sociological and criminological language with respect to the phenomena investigated. - Extended program
- 1. 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).
2. The main criminological theories are analyzed, with special emphasis on those from the sociological field.
3. The effects of the pandemic on criminal phenomena (gender and anti-women violence, cybercrime, prison, and organized crime). - Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile
- Yes