Teacher(s)
Language
French
Prerequisites
The prerequisite(s) for this Teaching Unit (Unité d’enseignement – UE) for the programmes/courses that offer this Teaching Unit are specified at the end of this sheet.
Learning outcomes
At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to : | |
| By the end of the course the student should be able to situate the historical roots of contemporary thought on crime and penalty, as they appear in eighteenth and nineteenth century. Despite the inflections of the different currents and the different theories examined, the aim will be to understand the cultural invariants (and deadlocks) of the modern penal rationality. | |
Content
This course will study:
1) how transgression is conceived and how penal rationality is set in the eighteenth century;
2) how philanthropists and psychiatrists have taken hold of a number of social and psychological problems related to crime;
3) how the "organic" criminal figure emerges at the end of the nineteenth century and simplifies earlier intellectual constructions;
4) how, from this "objectification" of the criminal's “nature”, criminology grows as a seemingly autonomous discipline.
1) how transgression is conceived and how penal rationality is set in the eighteenth century;
2) how philanthropists and psychiatrists have taken hold of a number of social and psychological problems related to crime;
3) how the "organic" criminal figure emerges at the end of the nineteenth century and simplifies earlier intellectual constructions;
4) how, from this "objectification" of the criminal's “nature”, criminology grows as a seemingly autonomous discipline.
Teaching methods
The course is a lecture taught by the professor that will present the essential articulations of the theories studied. A book very much inspired the course: its reading is compulsory and will help the students find substantial support to study the subject "in full knowledge of the facts". It is: Debuyst Chr., Digneffe Fr., Pires A.P., Labadie J.-M., Histoire des savoirs sur le crime et la peine, tome 1, Bruxelles, Larcier, 2008 (2e éd.)
Evaluation methods
The course will be assessed by an examination. The examination will be an oral assessment (face to face or via teams)
Other information
The book mentioned (see above) and a summary provided by the professor, are the supports of the course.
Bibliography
Bibliographie : Yves Cartuyvels, Histoire de la criminologie, Syllabus, 2020-2021
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