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.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

In particular, the lectures aims to:

- reconstruct the main theories of deviance and criminality;

- investigate social control and marginalization devices of individuals.

At the end of the course, the students will acquire adequate knowledge and interpretative tools to critically analyze deviant phenomena and of social exclusion, and to develop empirical research in this field.

TEACHING METHODS

- Frontal lessons

- Exercises/small groups activities

- Classroom discussions on the topics dealt with, starting from the analysis of case studies.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

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

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Notes made in the class.
2. The reading materials distributed, indicated during the course and published (via the portal aulaweb).
3. I. Fanlo Cortés, D. Ferrari, a cura di, I soggetti vulnerabili nei processi migratori. La protezione internazionale tra teoria e prassi, G. Giappichelli, Collana del Corso di Laurea in Servizio sociale, Torino, 2019 (introduction and 5 essays).

1. F. Prina, Devianza e criminalità. Concetti, metodi di ricerca, cause, politiche, Carocci editore, Roma, 2019.
2. I. Fanlo Cortés, D. Ferrari, a cura di, I soggetti vulnerabili nei processi migratori. La protezione internazionale tra teoria e prassi, G. Giappichelli, Collana del Corso di Laurea in Servizio sociale, Torino, 2019.