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In this course, you will :
- Discover how theoretical concepts relate to current criminal policy practises.
- Learn how to compute basic crime rates.
- Learn about the tools that criminologists use to detect latent crimes.
- Investigate various criminological theories.
Syllabus :
1. What does Criminology Study? Criminological Concept of Crime
- What is Criminology?
- Deviance
- What is Crime?
- Criminalization
- Crime as a Social Problem
- Moral Panics
2. The State of Crime
- Measuring Crime
- Latent Crime
- Crime statistics
- Victimization Surveys and Self-reports Studies
3. Why do People Commit Crimes? Rational Choice and Situational Factors
- Overthrow of the Criminological Theories
- Classical School of Criminology
- Deterrence Theory
- Economic Analysis of Crime and Rational Choice Theory
- Routine Activities Theory
4. Why do People Commit Crimes? Call of Blood
- C. Lombroso: The Criminal Man
- Lombroso's Followers
- Body Type and Criminal Disposition
- Gene-based Theories of Crime
- Neurological Explanations of Crime
- Psychological Factors of Crime
5. Why do People Commit Crimes? Macrosocial Explanations
- Early Sociological Explanations
- E. Durkheim: Anomie and Crime
- R. Merton: Social Structure and Anomie
- Strain Theories
- Social Disorganization Theory
- Criminal Subcultures
6. Why do People Commit Crimes? Microsocial Explanations
- Differentiated Association Theory
- Social Learning Theory
- Neutralization Theory
- Social Bonds Theory
- General Theory of Crime
- Labeling Theory
7. Critical and Integrative Theories
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: Crime and Capitalism
- W. Bonger: Criminality and Economic Conditions
- Conflict, Radical and Green Criminology
- Feminist Criminology
- Development and Life-Course Criminology
- Criminology and Behavioral Economics
8. Criminological Analysis of Punishment and Crime Prevention
- Goals of Punishment. Consequentialism
- Goals of Punishment. Retributivism
- Sociology of Punishment
- Incarceration
- Crime Prevention
- Situational Crime Prevention
