- Docente: Alvise Sbraccia
- Credits: 2
- SSD: SPS/12
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Law (cod. 0659)
Learning outcomes
The seminar -- conceived in particular for (but not limited to) the students who follow the course of Criminologia -- will explore social control and punishment in a critical fashion, specifically the control by the police and the penitentiary system. We shall delve with the mechanisms through which social control is reproduced, its basic functions, and the power effects deployed.
Course contents
The seminar will develop in eight meetings of two hours each (mid-March to mid-May). Generally speaking, the first meeting will be devoted to an introduction of the seminar and the last to presentation of their paper topics by the students. In between, there will be presentations by the staff and by external guests, both Italian and from abroad.
Readings/Bibliography
See the syllabus.
Teaching methods
A mix of lectures and student participation.
Assessment methods
The final assessment will be based on attendance and the discussion of a paper in the final oral examination, for those who follow also the course of Criminologia. For those instead who do not have Criminologia in their study plan, the final assessment will be based on attendance plus the discussion of texts indicated in the Syllabus.
Teaching tools
Besides the in-class presentations, the writing of a final paper.
Office hours
See the website of Alvise Sbraccia