Aims

Objectives (in termes of skills)
The objective of the course is to train students in what Ancel termed "the basic method" of Crime policy research, a method "which adopts a comparative approach to the study of the development, current state and future" of mechanisms used in the "fight against crime" and in the "redistribution of the social costs of crime". Emphasis is laid initially on developing students' theoretical skills, introducing them to the way in which Crime Policy is viewed in traditional doctrine, within traditional and new social defense theories and in the abolitionist perspective. The course also focuses on the analysis of mechanisms and specific practices in the fight against crime and the redistribution of the social costs of crime. Care is taken to select those mechanisms and practices which will give students an insight into the various actors, both in Belgium and in Europe, who are involved in defining crime policies.

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