Unit Sociology of Deviance and Social Control
- Course
- Socioanthropological studies for integration and social security
- Study-unit Code
- A002559
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Sabina Curti
- Teachers
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- Sabina Curti
- Hours
- 72 ore - Sabina Curti
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2024
- Offered
- 2024/25
- 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. Elements of sociology of deviance (distance education-Unistudium)
2. Fear: epistemology, phenomenology and sociological analysis
3. Fear of control and control of fear - Reference texts
- For 12 cfu:
1. slide
2. J. Bourke, Fear, Counterpoint 2006.
3. J. Simon, Governing Through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear (Studies in Crime and Public Policy), Oxford UniversitY Press.
For 6 cfu:
1. slide
and
J. Bourke, Fear, Counterpoint 2006.
or
J. Simon, Governing Through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear (Studies in Crime and Public Policy), Oxford UniversitY Press. - Educational objectives
- At the end of the course, the student possesses the basic knowledge required for the socio-criminological analysis of the phenomena dealt with in relation to the field of deviance and crime; the ability to approach the field of professional work with operational tools; the knowledge and skills to be able to design interventions, especially analytical, socio-cultural, preventive and extra-legal interventions, relating to deviance and crime.
- Prerequisites
- No
- Teaching methods
- Lectures
In-depth seminars
Video and film documentaries
Written papers
Meetings with experts and privileged witnesses
Reflexivity and Research exercises - Other information
- 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 - Learning verification modality
- The test will consist of a written examination with open questions to assess
- the understanding and knowledge of the issues dealt with, 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 investigated;
- the ability to design social research and prevention interventions in hypothetical criminal and extra-criminal contexts. - Extended program
- Introduction to the course, teaching, workshop and evaluation methods.
1. Elements of the sociology of deviance and social control: analysis of the causes of deviance, systems of prevention and control.
2. Fear as an emotion and as a mechanism of social control. Fear of control, control of fear.
3. Fear of self and other: causes, effects, recursiveness. Fear, criminal(s) and victim(s).
4. Individual and social dimensions of fear. Case studies and practical observations.
5. Fear of control and control of fear.
6. Fear in the emergency coordination and management and safety professions. - Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile
- Yes