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/.