6 ECTS credits
150 h study time
Offer 2 with catalog number 1006889BER for all students in the 1st semester at a (B) Bachelor - advanced level.
- Exploration of the concept of punishment from the perspective of its various penal objectives and social functions.
- Analysis of the death penalty from an international and national perspective.
- Criminological analysis of the implementation of detention in Belgium: knowledge of the different kinds of prisons in Belgium and the prison regimes, the effect of imprisonment, the evolution of the prison population in Belgium.
- Judical and criminological analysis of the internal and external judicial position of prisoners from an international and national perspective.
- The subjective experiences of punishment.
- Visit of a Belgian prison (optional and only for criminology students).
For English speaking students a reading course is available and two contact sessions will be organised to guide the students through the course.
A visit to a Belgian prison will be organised (participation is optional, language is Dutch).
Please contact Prof. Dr. Kristel Beyens; Room 4B337; tel. 02/629.13.91; Kristel.Beyens@vub.be
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Written Exam determines 100% of the final mark.
Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
Written exam, with open questions for English speaking students who are registered for the reading course.
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Psychology: Profile Profile Work and Organisational Psychology (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Psychology: Profile Profile Clinical psychology (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Adult Education: Profile Social Studies (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Adult Education: Abridged Profile Social Studies (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Criminology: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Criminology: Verkort traject 1 (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Criminology: Instroomplan 2 (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Criminology: Instroomplan 3 (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Criminology: Instroomplan 4 (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Criminology: Instroomplan 5 (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Political Science and Sociology: - afstudeerrichting sociologie, minor criminologische wetenschappen (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Adult Education: Profile Education Studies (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Laws: Dual Master in Comparative Corporate and Financial Law (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Laws: Civil and Procedural Law (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Laws: Criminology (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Laws: Economic Law (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Laws: Tax Law (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Laws: International and European Law (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Laws: Public Law (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Laws: Social Law (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Laws: Criminal Law (only offered in Dutch)