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 and exercises.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

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

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 (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:

1. C. Rinaldi, P. Saitta, a cura di, Devianze e crimine. Antologia ragionata di teorie classiche e contemporanee, PM edizioni, 2017: only pp. 17-360, 397-442.
2. 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/.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

LAURA SCUDIERI (President)

ISABEL FANLO CORTES

REALINO MARRA

LESSONS

LESSONS START

I semester from September, 18th to December, 7th 2017 (12 weeks)
II semester from February, 26th to May, 18th 2018 (12 weeks)

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

Exam schedule