91191 - Power Relations And Victimization Processes

Learning outcomes

The aim of the course is to provide an advanced and critical overview of the role of victims of crime, abuse of power, social exclusion and repression in contemporary society with regards to the main theoretical approaches in the discipline as a reflection of the changing of structure dynamics and relations at all levels. At the end of the course students will be able to: analyze processes of victimization in contemporary societies in a broader political and socio-economic context; set the peculiar condition of victims in the frame of multiple interactions with regards to national and supra national Institutions; recognize the ambivalence of victims’ role inside the judiciary and criminal justice systems in a comparative perspective; apply the “new” victimology of human rights in an original and interdisciplinary approach that transcends current official and social perspectives of victimization and its sources.

Course contents

The course is organized according to the model of the Structured Seminar.The course is composed by10 hours taught online weekly in 2-hour slots that prepare the seminar and by classes organized as seminars thatwill be held in presence in 10 meetings (3 hours per meeting). Students are required to carefully read the assigned material before theclassand active participation throughpresentations of existing scholarshipand case studies will also be expected.Regardless of the health-related conditionsand the specific organization of the course, students will be able to follow the lessons of the entire course remotely on MS TEAMS.The seminar organization is detailed in the program that follows.

The aim of the course is to provide an advanced and critical overview and understanding of the role of victims of crime and abuse of power, social exclusion and repression in contemporary society with regards to the main theoretical approaches in the discipline as a reflection of the changing of structure dynamics and relations at all level in the "global era".

Readings/Bibliography

1) P. Davis, P. Francis and C. Greer, Victims, Crime and Society, SAGE Publications Ltd., London, 2012.

2) Report of the Special Adviser J. Milquet - European Commission, Strengthening Victims' Rights; from Compensation to Reparation. For a new EU Victims' rights strategy 2020-2025, March 2019, on the website: https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/strengthening_victims_rights_-_from_compensation_to_reparation_rev.pdf

3) Articles and other documents that will be assigned to the students during the course

 

Teaching methods

Lessons and lectures in the classroom, with the active and direct partecipation of students (for example presentation and discussion of papers on specific topics). With regards to this last opportunity, further information would be given to students at the beginning of the course.

Assessment methods

Oral examination. For students attending the course, there will be also en evaluation of the papers presented and discussed in the classroom.

Teaching tools

Power point slides, articles given by the teacher during the lessons, vision in the classroom of films.

Links to further information

https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/susanna.vezzadini/

Office hours

See the website of Susanna Vezzadini