UCL - Introduction to Criminology

[ECRI1503]

[30h] 6 credits

This course is taught in the 2d semester.

Teacher(s): Maria Luisa Cesoni, Marie-Sophie Devresse

Language: French

Level: First

Aims
Main themes
Content and teaching methods
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Aims

The objective of this teaching is double
1. On the one hand, to introduce the student with an interdisciplinary reflexion on criminological sets of themes
2. On the other hand, to sensitize it with the implications of this interdisciplinarity in the construction of the knowledge.

Main themes

Particular problematics variables according to academic years, will be approached: offence of manners, victimology, abuse in the relations.....
The course will draw the attention to paradigmatic and theoretical divisions of the criminological knowledge.

Content and teaching methods

Impulse of the central concepts in criminology (prevention, description, reference, execution of the sorrows, alternatives, victims....) illustrated by the ground of the teaching collaborators in bond with the contemporary literature.
The method will alternate meetings of lecturing and meetings organized on the mode of the debate. The meetings of debate are prepared by a group of students.

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Material support
Evaluation : written exam.