Comparative Criminal Justice, 3–6 cr
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The course on Comparative Criminal Justice provides Tampere University students with the opportunity to study comparative crime and
punishment issues with visiting students from American/British universities. The students will be instructed as a collective with instructional responsibilities being shared by lecturers from partipating universities.
This course will look at the criminal justice system within a global
context. The course will look at theories of criminality, deviance and
punishment within socio-political context of the different countries
studied as well as the comparison between the countries. Within this
framework, students will examine theories of crime including but not
limited to: the learning theory, corporate crime, and restorative
justice.
The course will utilize a variety of teaching methods, including
lectures, discussions, videos, guest speakers and tours of prisons in
Finland and in some Baltic countries. The USA penal system will also be analyzed.