Introduction to Criminology

lecri1503  2019-2020  Louvain-la-Neuve

Introduction to Criminology
Note from June 29, 2020
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
6 credits
30.0 h + 15.0 h
Q1
Teacher(s)
Devresse Marie-Sophie;
Language
French
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.
Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

1 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.
 

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Bibliography
Une bibliographie indicative est fournie aux étudiants en vue d'un approfondissement de la matière.
Teaching materials
  • Ch. Adam, J.-F. Cauchie, M.-S. Devresse, F. Digneffe & D. Kaminski (2014), Crime, Justice et lieux communs. Une introduction à la criminologie, Bruxelles, Larcier, 258p.
Faculty or entity
ECRI


Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Aims
Minor in Criminology