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TERRITORY, ENVIRONMENT AND CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES Single discipline educational activity
Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Disciplinary Sector:
Sociology of the Environment and Territory
Professor and Collaborators:
Hours of classroom activity:
Prerequisites:
A good level of knowledge of general sociology, of the methods of social research and of urban sociology
Objectives Contents - Relations between urban spaces, economic and cultural variables and criminal phenomenology
Extended Syllabus 1. Local networks and the birth of criminal cultures
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 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
