ID:
65025
Dettaglio:
SSD: Criminal Law
Duration: 36
CFU: 6
Located in:
BERGAMO
Url:
LAW - 65/PERCORSO COMUNE Year: 5
LAW - 65/PERCORSO COMUNE Year: 4
Year:
2025
The aim of the course
is to explain the historical development of the discipline to the students and
to provide an overview of its theoretical evolution, including the latest
scientific development.
Prerequisites
Criminal Law.
Frontal lessons accompanied by
slide presentations. Possibility of group discussion of topics
proposed by students.
The final exam will be held in oral form and the evaluation will be expressed in thirtieths. The interrogation will be structured in two or three questions on the entire program in order to verify the acquisition by the students of the notions imparted within the course.
Definition of
criminology and object of its study. The scientific method in criminology.
Psychological, sociological and legal aspects.
Methodology
of research in criminology. Historical research. Methods and tools
of empirical research. Data, statistics and indices.
Birth and
historical development of criminology. The evolution of theories of deviance
from the Enlightenment to the Positive School.
Anthropo-biological
factors in the study of criminology. The
heredity-environment issue. The study of genetic factors, biochemical factors and
neuroscience in criminology.
Sociology
of deviance. The Chicago School. The theory of "tension". Social
learning and deviance.
Theories of social
control. Theories of conflict. The theory of labeling.
Contemporary criminological theories.
Some forms of crime: economic, organized, terrorism.
Reference texts
Marotta G.-Cornacchia L., Criminologia.
Storia, Teorie, Metodi, 4. ed., Wolters Kluwer, 2024
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