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SOCIOLOGY OF LAW AND PENALTY 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) Researches and problems of the sociology of law
b) Sociological analysis of penitentiary institution
Extended Syllabus Extended program:
a) Researches and problems of the sociology of law
- The sociological approach to law
- The normative messages in society
- Society and legal rules
- Internal and external legal culture
- Learning the rules
- Legislative process and law production
- The process of implementing the rules
- The construction of crime and the criminal
- The pluralism of legal systems
- The sociology of law and the values of law
b) Analysis of the penitentiary institutions
- Origins and evolution of the penitentiary
- Philosophy of punishment and detention
- Social organization of prison life
- Conditions of detention and emerging problems
Recommended Bibliography Reference texts:
1) A. Cottino, Lineamenti di sociologia del diritto, Zanichelli, Torino 2016
2) M. Cascavilla, Diritto, giustizia e prassi in Italo
Mancini, Morcelliana, Brescia 2021
2) F. Vianello, Sociologia del carcere, Carocci, Roma 2019
Teaching Methods Teaching methods:
• 48 hours of frontal lessons, of which 4 hours for in-depth seminars on
topics of particular interest with the intervention of experts, 4 hours for
exercises and group work.
• 12 hours of assisted study and revision of the topics covered in the
classroom;
• 90 hours of self-study
• Overall commitment: 48 hours of lessons, 12 hours of assisted study,
90 hours of self-study
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
Learning verify methods:
The verification methods will consist of an oral interview in which,
through specific questions (at least three) regarding all 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 be able
to use critically and to know how to apply the concepts assumed to
concrete cases.
About halfway through the course an intermediate test is provided with
the administration of a questionnaire of 30 multiple choice questions for
the ongoing assessment of the degree of learning on the program carried
out.
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