91194 - HISTORY OF GLOBALIZATION AND CRIME

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

At the end of this course students: will become familiar with the most important categories to understand and explain the intersection between globalization and crime; will acquire knowledge about how globalization processes affect crime in an historical and in a comparative perspective; will be able to analyse and discuss some of the most important “global” types of crime: transnational organized crime and youth gangs

Contenuti

This course explores the connections between globalization and crime, and how these connections change in space and time. Globalization affects crime phenomena in a variety of ways: creating new conditions and opportunities for new types of crime, or reshaping more traditional criminal behaviors and increasing insecurity and fear of crime. Moreover, globalization requires new categories to explain and understand crime and therefore affects and reshapes many traditional criminological theories. The course will focus on the following topics:

Introduction: definitions of globalization and crime

A short history of globalization

How globalization affects crime

Global inequality and crime

How concept and categories of traditional criminology change as a consequence of globalization

Do we need a new criminology to understand globalization of crime?

Global insecurity and fear of crime

Global cities, inequalities, informal markets

How crime migrates: the case of global gangs and youth violence

Gangs in a global world

Globalization and organized crime: trafficking and smuggling

Testi/Bibliografia

Readings recommended for this class (mandatory for students who do not attend regularly):

Katja Franko (2013) Globalization and Crime, London, Sage, 2nd edition. Chapters 1,2,3,9,10.

Jennifer M. Hazen & Dennis Rodgers (2014) (eds) Global Gangs. Street Violence Across the World, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press

Sophie Body-Gendrot (2012) Globalization, Fear and Insecurity. The Challenges for Cities North and South, Basingstoke, Palgrave McMillan. Introduction, chapters 1,2, 5, 6.

A full list of readings for students who regularly attend classes will be posted at the beginning of class on the class website on "Insegnamenti online" at iol.unibo.it

Metodi didattici

Lectures (55%), small groups activities and class discussions (20%) movies and documentaries (20%), guest speakers (5%)

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

For students who DO NOT regularly attend classes there will be one written final exam based on questions (2 hrs.)

For students who do regularly attend classes there will be:

an intermediate written exam (40% of final grade)

a final written exam (60% of final grade- 90 mns)

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

Power point; Audio-visual materials.

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Rossella Selmini