TERRITORY, ENVIRONMENT AND CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

RSPC04

Academic Year of enrolment:

2022

Year of supply:

2022/2023

Type of Course:

Characterising

Degree:

Course of 2nd Cycle Degree in SOCIAL RESEARCH, SECURITY POLICY AND CRIMINAL STUDIES

Disciplinary Sector:

Sociology of the Environment and Territory

Language:

Italian

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

AGUSTONI Alfredo

Cycle:

Second semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

135

Prerequisites:

A good level of knowledge of general sociology, of the methods of social research and of urban sociology

Objectives

The development of a cognition of relations between phisical and social context, local cultures and criminal activities

Contents

- Relations between urban spaces, economic and cultural variables and criminal phenomenology
- Perceptions of risk and insecurity in urban daily life
- Policies for Urban Security
- Methods of investigation in urban environment

Extended Syllabus

1. Local networks and the birth of criminal cultures
2. Urban perceptions and security
3. The political and cultural construction of security and insecurity
4. Urban planning, cultures of security and criminal activities
5. Urban segregation and deviance;
6. Urban ethnography and the analysis of local and cryminal cultures
7. Case studies and urban comparative research in the analysis of security policies
7.

Recommended Bibliography

1. S. Body-Gendrot e C. Withol de Wenden, Policing the Inner Cities in Britain, France and the US, Palgrave; 2. S. Body-Gendrot, The Social Control of Cities. A Comparative Perspective, Blackwell; 3. AAVV, Comparative Urban Research from Theory to Practice, Bristol Policy Press; J. Robinson, Comparative Urbanism, Tactics for Global Urban Studies, Wiley.

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

Frontal lesson, aimed to stimulate collective discussion and elaborations of the contents, with eventual experiences of research (individual or in group)

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

Oral examination, aimed to check the attitude in crytically discussing the issues of the course

Contacts/More Information

We touch the typical issues of an advanced course of Urban Sociology, with a particular attention to risk theory and security issues, due to the character of the course of studies

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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