INTEGRATED COURSE OF LEGAL PSYCHO-SOCIOLOGY AND DEVIANCE

Module SOCIOLOGY OF DEVIANCE: THEORIES, METHODS AND POLICIES

1. Knowledge and Understanding: Students must demonstrate that they have acquired familiarity with the basic concepts of the sociology of law and deviance, that they have understood, from a sociological perspective, the production and implementation of norms, as well as the various interpretative theories of deviant phenomena and their connections with regulations.

2. Application of Knowledge and Understanding: Students should be able to critically navigate among the various theoretical interpretative models presented and discussed. They should also gain awareness of the implications of these different models for policy orientations.

3. Autonomy of Judgment: Students should be in a position to understand the challenges in the production and implementation of norms and interpret common-sense discourse on deviant phenomena, acquiring autonomy in judgment and evaluation.

4. Communication Skills: Students should be able to actively listen during the lesson, engage by asking questions, and communicate clearly, effectively, and appropriately considering their interlocutor.

5. Learning Skills: Students should be capable of independent learning

The course aims to promote the ability to analyze deviance as social phenomena and understand the relationship between law and other social phenomena by providing students with the foundational knowledge of the discipline. To achieve this, the following steps will be taken:

a) Fundamental concepts of the discipline. b) Production and implementation of law. c) Interpretative paradigms and sociological theories regarding the causes of deviance and crime. Some insights will be proposed concerning: immigration and crime, youth gangs and penitentiary practices.

Students will be enabled to comprehend the connections between interpretative models of the studied phenomena, their social representation, and the forms that normative references (laws, jurisprudence) and control policies (prevention, containment, repression, treatment) can take.

F. Prina, 2019, Devianza e criminalità. Concetti, metodi di ricerca, cause, politiche, Carocci,

V. Ferraris, 202,  Immigrazione e Criminalità. Teorie, Norme e rappresentazioni Carocci, capp. 2 e 3 pp. 27-76

F. Prina,2029, Gang Giovanili. Perché nascono, chi ne fa parte, come intervenire, Il Mulino cap. 3 pp. 73-105

P.A. Allegri, 2023, Retoriche rieducative, Pratiche Penitenziarie e formazione professionale Il Mulino capp. I e III pp. 9-36 e 67-84

The evaluation methods will be different between attending and non-attending students.

For those attending, a classroom laboratory will be held on the topics chosen by the students and the criteria for evaluating the test will be: the correctness and completeness of the topics, the clarity of presentation and the ownership of language as well as the ability to analyze and criticize. For non-attending students a written exam is required.

The definitions and main concepts used in the discipline: norms, law, deviance and crime.

Sociological research on law, deviance and crime 

The causes and reasons for deviance and crime

Crime data: limits and meanings 

Contrast and regulatory policies

Immigration and crime between norms and representations

youth gangs: how to describe and analyse

Complexity and ambiguity of the penitentiary context 

The problems and specificities of research in the field of deviance and crime