- Docente: Dario Melossi
- Credits: 8
- SSD: SPS/07
- Language: English
- Moduli: Dario Melossi (Modulo 1) Stefania Crocitti (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
International Relations (cod. 8782)
Also valid for Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Law (cod. 0659)
Learning outcomes
The objective of the course is the acquisition of some of the central concepts in the sociology of crime and punishment. Such acquisition is directed both at the professional competence of those who will work in the areas of deviance and social control, and of those who will go on to a concentration in criminal law and socio-criminological research. The course will develop around an in-depth focus on the most important criminological theories, in connection with their historical and intellectual roots, in a comparative perspective between North America and Europe. The specific focus and structure of this year's course will be announced in a syllabus to be distributed at the beginning of the course.
Course contents
This is a course in the sociological theory of crime and
punishment. The specific
object of the course is the relationship between such theories
and the broader framework of migration in the European Union. What
is the connection between processes of European unification (legal,
political, economic and social) and migrants' criminalization -- in
the two aspects of criminalization, i.e. migrants' participation in
criminal behavior, and the construction of migrants as criminal
subjects? Some of the theories discussed will be the ecological
theory of the Chicago School, differential association theory, the
theory of anomie, labelling theory, and the theories of "everyday
life".
Readings/Bibliography
The main texts will be:
Dario Melossi, Crime, Punishment and Migration. London: SAGE, 2015.
Dario Melossi, Controlling Crime, Controlling Society: Thinking About Crime in Europe and America. Cambridge (UK): Polity Press, paperback, ISBN: 9780745634296, distribution: Wiley, 250 pages.
Other readings shall be assigned during the course, according to the topic discussed (see syllabus distributed at the beginning of the course).
Teaching methods
Course attendance is required and will be regularly checked. Participation in collective discussion and presentations will be actively encouraged.
Assessment methods
Examinations are oral examinations. The final assessment will take
into consideration also the regular attendance of the course and
the student's participation in class discussion.
(Please note that certificates of attendance will be handed out
only to those students who have attended the course and obtained at
least a "pass" grade at the exam).
Teaching tools
We shall use fictional and documentary visual materials in order to illustrate and discuss the main sociological and criminological theories and the central research topics. Also for this reason, course attendance is required and will be regularly checked, and so is students' participation in collective discussion.
Office hours
See the website of Dario Melossi
See the website of Stefania Crocitti