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.
Frontal lessons and exercises.
Part One: Capitalism: Marx and Weber - 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 Two: Social control devices - Dataveillance
Textbooks and recommended reading materials for students attending:
1. Notes made in class.
2. The reading materials distributed and indicated during the course (aulaweb).
3. An essay chosen by the student taken from a issue of the online Journal AG-About Gender, International Journal of Gender Studies (free download, but subject to compulsory registration) at the link https://riviste.unige.it/aboutgender/.
Textbooks and recommended reading materials for students not attending:
LAURA SCUDIERI (President)
ISABEL FANLO CORTES
REALINO MARRA
I semester from September, 18th to December, 7th 2017 (12 weeks) II semester from February, 26th to May, 18th 2018 (12 weeks)
