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SOCIOLOGY OF LAW AND CRIME. Single discipline educational activity
Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Disciplinary Sector:
Juridical Sociology and Sociology of Deviance and Social Change
Professor and Collaborators:
Hours of classroom activity:
Objectives
Contents Contents:
a) Research and problems of sociology of law
b) Sociological theories of crime
Extended Syllabus Extended program:
a) Research and problems of sociology of law
- The sociological approach to law
- Normative messages in society
- Company and legal rules
- Internal and external legal culture
- learning standards
- Legislative process and production of law
- The process of implementing the rules
- The construction of crime and the criminal
- The pluralism of legal systems
b) Sociological theories of crime
- The classical school of criminal law
- The positive school
- The Chicago school
- The theory of differential association
- The theory of anomia
- The theory of labeling
- The theory of conflict
- The theory of social control
- The theory of social learning
Recommended Bibliography Reference texts:
1) A. Cottino, Lineamenti di sociologia del diritto, Zanichelli, Torino, 2016
2) F. P. Williams III – M. D. McShane, Devianza e criminalità, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2002
Teaching Methods Teaching methods:
• 72 hours of lectures, 6 hours intended for in-depth seminars on topics of particular interest with the intervention of experts, 6 hours for exercises and group work.
• 13 hours of assisted study and revision of the topics dealt with in the classroom;
• 140 hours of independent study
• Total commitment: 72 hours of lessons, 13 hours of assisted study, 140 hours of independent study
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
Assessment methods
The verification methods will consist of an oral interview in which through specific questions (at least three) concerning all the parts of the program the degree of knowledge acquired by the student on the topics covered in the Course will be ascertained as well as the ability to know how to use critically and to know how to apply to concrete cases the notions assumed.
Approximately halfway through the course, an intermediate test is provided with the administration of a questionnaire of 30 multiple choice questions to ascertain in itinere the degree of learning on the program carried out.
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