6 ECTS credits
150 u studietijd
Aanbieding 1 met studiegidsnummer 4021178DNR voor alle studenten in het 1e semester
met een inleidend master niveau.
- Semester
- 1e semester
- Inschrijving onder examencontract
- Niet mogelijk
- Beoordelingsvoet
- Beoordeling (0 tot 20)
- 2e zittijd mogelijk
- Ja
- Onderwijstaal
- Engels
- Faculteit
- Faculteit Recht en Criminologie
- Verantwoordelijke vakgroep
- Criminologie
- Onderwijsteam
- Elisabeth Enhus
Lucas De Melo Melgaço
(titularis)
- Onderdelen en contacturen
- 14 contacturen Hoorcollege
28 contacturen Werkcolleges, practica en oefeningen
300 contacturen Zelfstudie en externe werkvormen
- Inhoud
This course discusses current themes, concepts and theories in criminology. It analyzes the complexities of defining, explaining, measuring and reacting to crime in a conversation with practitioners and scholars from different fields within criminology. What are the origins of crime? What makes a criminal? Poverty? Inequality? Mental disease? How to measure crime? How to research it? What groups and actions are criminalized? What are the main characteristics of offenders and victims in different types of crime? How to tackle crime? How to prevent it? How to punish it? These are some of the questions that will be discussed in this course. The course combine different teaching strategies including the preparation and presentation of seminars by students, the analysis of multimedia material, like movies and documentaries, combined with key readings on the topic and, most importantly, the encounters with practitioners and scholars in the field of criminology and on related areas who will be invited to share their experiences.
- Studiemateriaal
- Digitaal cursusmateriaal (Vereist) : Reader, The online platform
- Bijkomende info
A reader will be provided in class or via the online platform.
- Leerresultaten
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General Competencies
Knowledge and insight
- The graduate has knowledge of the main issues and difficulties faced by practitioners of different fields within criminology;
- The graduate has knowledge of and understands the international debates on the social definition of crime;
- The graduate is able to make a critical analysis of behaviors that in certain contexts are defined as crime;
- The graduate has knowledge about and understands the development of crime statistics and measurements;
- The graduate can interpret crime statistics and measurements in a critical way;
- The graduate has knowledge about and understands different criminological explanations for crime and victimization;
- The graduate can critically explain and analyse the relationship between the different explanations for crime and victimization and the criminal policy pursued.
Skills
- The graduate understands the role of crime in society, the way it is measured and is capable of approaching this in a scientific way;
- The graduate has developed a logical and structured way of thinking;
- The graduate can communicate orally in a synthetic and structured way her own science-based insights;
- The graduate can gather literature associated with a given criminological topic in a meaningful and scientific way;
- The graduate can analyze criminological theories and use and apply them to a specific criminological phenomenon;
- The graduate can express ideas in a clear, comprehensive and meticulous language.
Attitudes
- The graduate has an interested, inquisitive and independent attitude and follow the international and national developments related to debates on crime and its approach;
- The graduate has a great interest in and sensitivity to the social impact of defining, measuring and explaining crime and victimization.
- The graduate deals with the emotional aspects of the studied phenomena;
- The graduate is open minded and free of prejudice.
- Beoordelingsinformatie
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De beoordeling bestaat uit volgende opdrachtcategorieën:
Examen Mondeling bepaalt 60% van het eindcijfer
WPO Groepswerk bepaalt 40% van het eindcijfer
Binnen de categorie Examen Mondeling dient men volgende opdrachten af te werken:
- Examen Mondeling
met een wegingsfactor 60
en aldus 60% van het totale eindcijfer.
Binnen de categorie WPO Groepswerk dient men volgende opdrachten af te werken:
- Presentation group paper
met een wegingsfactor 40
en aldus 40% van het totale eindcijfer.
- Aanvullende info mbt evaluatie
Students will be assessed on the basis of group task (40%) activity and a final oral exam (60%) with written preparation. For the oral exam students will be allowed to bring and consult a summary of classes and texts prepared by themselves. For the group task students will prepare one seminar based on both the mandatory and supplementary texts for one of the course's sessions. Students are expected to deliver their slides and a written explanation of the intervention they plan to make in class.
- Toegestane onvoldoende
- Kijk in het aanvullend OER van je faculteit na of een toegestane onvoldoende mogelijk is voor dit opleidingsonderdeel.
Academische context
Deze aanbieding maakt deel uit van de volgende studieplannen:
Master of Urban Studies: Standard track (enkel aangeboden in het Engels)