Historical introduction to penal thought and criminology II

Teacher(s)

Devresse Marie-Sophie; Slingeneyer de Goeswin Thibaut;

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

The course content is twofold:
1. First, it provides an introduction to the foundations of criminology and offers an interdisciplinary reflection on its core concepts, including various conceptions of crime, the act of committing a crime, social reaction, punishment, alternatives to criminal justice, and more.
2. Second, it aims to raise awareness of the importance of an interdisciplinarity perspective in the construction of knowledge in criminology.

Teaching methods

Ex-cathedra course (lecture course).
 

Evaluation methods

Single written examination (in French) that covers the lecture content and consists of several open-ended questions.

Online resources

Lecture session PowerPoint presentations will be available on Moodle.
Optional reading texts (on Moodle).

Bibliography

Une bibliographie indicative sera fournie sur Moodle aux étudiant·es en vue d'un approfondissement de la matière.
An indicative bibliography will be provided on Moodle for students who wish to explore the subject further.

Faculty or entity

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