- Docente: Roberta Bisi
- Credits: 10
- SSD: SPS/12
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Sociology (cod. 8495)
Learning outcomes
The aim of this course is to introduce students to the sociological study of deviance and delinquency. By the end of the course students will be able to appraise the contribution of the theoretical frameworks analysed to our understanding of crime and deviance.
Course contents
The first part of the program concerns the relationships between the sociology of deviance and the other human sciences putting into evidence the existence of different and sometimes opposing paradigms. Afterwards we will examine the historical and developing aspect of this discipline in order to focus our attention on the specific theoretical contributions which have fostered a debate in the criminological field.
Within this historical excursus, some aspects about the crime dynamics will be illustrated with a particular reference to the interaction between the offender and the victim.
Readings/Bibliography
Balloni A., Bisi R., Sette R., Principi di criminologia - Le Teorie, Wolters Kluwer, Padova, 2015.
Students have to study all the articles published in:
Rivista di Criminologia, Vittimologia e Sicurezza, vol. IX, n. 1, January-April 2015 (available on the website: www.vittimologia.it/rivista)
Teaching methods
Lessons and class discussions.
Assessment methods
The final exam aims to verify the achievement of the following goals:
1) knowledge of the main criminological theories;
2) the ability to use these theories in order to analyze crime.
For not attendees students, the exam will consist in a written text followed by an oral examination.
For attendees students there will be two written exams: the first one after the first part of the lessons, and the second one at the end of the lessons. After having passed the written examinations, attendees students have access to oral interview.
It is forbidden to use books, notes and electronic appliances during the written exams.
Teaching tools
Video projector, overhead projector, PC, video recorder
Links to further information
http://www.vittimologia.it; http://www.cirvis.eu
Office hours
See the website of Roberta Bisi