Criminal Policy, Online teaching

Student can describe different uses of criminal policy. Student can discuss and argue how and why society acts and could act toward criminal behaviour. Student understands prime prevention practices. Student is familiar with current trends and historical development of criminal policy.

Unit introduces criminal policy as a foundation of criminal justice system but also as policy-level actions made to prevent criminal behaviour. It questions how and why we as society act towards criminal behaviour.

Common learning events for all

Lecture:

12.01.2022 16:00 - 18:00
19.01.2022 16:00 - 18:00
26.01.2022 16:00 - 18:00
02.02.2022 16:00 - 18:00
09.02.2022 16:00 - 18:00
16.02.2022 16:00 - 18:00
23.02.2022 16:00 - 18:00
09.03.2022 16:00 - 18:00
16.03.2022 16:00 - 18:00
23.03.2022 16:00 - 18:00
30.03.2022 16:00 - 18:00
06.04.2022 16:00 - 18:00
20.04.2022 16:00 - 18:00
27.04.2022 16:00 - 18:00

Following three publications:  

Sherman, L. W & Farrington D. & Welsh, B. & Mackenzie, D (eds.) (2002): Evidence-Based Crime Prevention. Routledge, London.

Garland, David (2002) The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society. University of Chicago Press.  

European Journal of Criminology, Special issue on Crimmigration in Europe, Volume 14, Issue 1, 2017

Costello, B. & Laub, J. (2020): Social Control Theory: The Legacy of Travis Hirschi’s Causes of Delinquency. Special Issue in Annual Review of Criminology, volume 3.

and 2 of the following:

Foucault, Michel 1975: Discipline and punish: The birth of the prison.

Goffman, Alice 2015: On the Run. Fugitive Life in an American City.

Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi (2017). Crime and Punishment in the Russian Revolution. Mob Justice and Police in Petrograd. Harvard University Press: Cambridge.

Cohen, Stanley (1985) Visions of social control: Crime, punishment
and classification. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Sherman, L. W & Farrington D. & Welsh, B. & Mackenzie, D (eds.) (2002): Evidence-Based Crime Prevention. Routledge, London.

Garland, David (2002) The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society. University of Chicago Press.

European Journal of Criminology, Special issue on Crimmigration in Europe, Volume 14, Issue 1, 2017

General scale, 0-5