AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

To know and to handle oneself in a critical way regarding the main paradigms of sociological description of deviance and criminality, as well as social control dispositives.

TEACHING METHODS

Frontal lessons

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Part One: Law, work, religion - The legal system - Legal change and social change - Capitalism and relations of class: Karl Marx - Capitalism, rationalization and ethics: Max Weber.

Part Two: Theories and rhetoric of deviance and criminality - The origins of criminal sociology: the moral statistics and positivist criminology - Functionalist perspectives and its development particularly in relation to juvenile delinquency; criticism of functionalism - The American criminology: the Chicago School, symbolic interactionism, ethnomethodology, labeling approach - The European criminology: the English criminology, German and Italian critical criminology, the French criminology - Gender Perspectives.

Part Three: Social control - Deviance and social control devices.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Textbooks and recommended reading materials for students attending:

1. Notes made in class.

2. The reading materials distributed and indicated during the course.

3. The editorial and an essay chosen by the student taken from the 10th issue of the online Journal AG-About Gender, International Journal of Gender Studies (free download, but subject to compulsory registration) at the link http://www.aboutgender.unige.it/ ojs / index.php / generis).

Textbooks and recommended reading materials for students not attending:

1. L. Berzano-F. Prina, Sociologia della devianza, Carocci, Roma, 2003, only pp. 39-195 (alternatively: F.P. Williams - M.D. McShane, Devianza e criminalità, il Mulino, Bologna, new ed. 2002, only lpp. 25-214) or other text agreed with the teacher.

2. One of the following texts: • I. Fanlo Cortés, Diritto, immigrazione, territorio. Ricerche socio-giuridiche sul governo delle migrazioni a livello locale, Ledizioni, Milano, 2012;  • R. Marra, Suicidio, diritto e anomia. Immagini della morte volontaria nella civiltà occidentale, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, Napoli, 1987: the introduction and the second part (pp. 117-274); • A. Di Lisciandro, L. Scudieri, eds. by, Michel Foucault. Diritto, sapere, verità, Ledizioni, Milano, 2015: eight essays chosen by the student.

3. The editorial and an essay chosen by the student taken from the 10th issue of the online Journal AG-About Gender, International Journal of Gender Studies (free download, but subject to compulsory registration) at the link http://www.aboutgender.unige.it/ ojs / index.php / generis).

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

LAURA SCUDIERI (President)

ISABEL FANLO CORTES

REALINO MARRA

LESSONS

Class schedule

LEGAL SOCIOLOGY AND DEVIANCE