AIMS AND CONTENT

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

To offer knowledge and interpretive tools for understanding social changes, introduced by the new social media, in both: the way of defining deviance and in the control and marginalization devices of individuals

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: Cybercrimes - Social control - Digital 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 (via the portal aulaweb).

3. Z. Bauman, D. Lyon, Liquid Surveillance: A Conversation, 2013.

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 pp. 25-214) or other text agreed with the teacher.

2. M. Foucault, Discipline and Punish: the Birth of the Prison, 1975.

3. Z. Bauman, D. Lyon, Liquid Surveillance: A Conversation, 2013.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

LAURA SCUDIERI (President)

EMANUELA ABBATECOLA

LESSONS

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

Exam schedule