LESSON
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TOPIC
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MANDATORY READINGS AND ASSIGNMENTS
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WK 1 A
15 Jan
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Introduction to the course
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Mugari Chapter 1 p.1-19
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WK 1 B
17 Jan
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What is crime? Definitions, constructions and debates
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Mugari Chapter 1 p.20-30
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WK 2 A
22 Jan
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Counting crime: Data sources
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American Society of Criminology. Code of Ethics
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WK 2 B
24 Jan
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Research methods and ethics
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On Crimes and Punishments, Cesare Beccaria
Watch Bentham video
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WK 3 A
29 Jan, 6pm
Aula Magna
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Guest Lecture: President Pietro Grasso: The Legacies of Giovanni Falcone
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Mugari Chapter 2
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WK 3 B
31 Jan
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Classical theories of crime and punishment
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Watch Situational Crime Prevention video
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WK 4 A
5 Feb
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Neo-classical approaches to crime and prevention
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Mugari Chapter 3
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WK 4 B
7 Feb
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Biological theories of crime
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Black, D. (2013) Bad boys, Bad men. Ch 6.
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WK 5 A
12 Feb
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Contemporary psychiatric theories of crime
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Watch TED Talk: Strange answers to the psychopath test
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WK 5 B
14 Feb
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Psychological theories
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Holt, T. (2019) Cybercrime subcultures: contextualizing offenders and the nature of the offence in The Human Factor of Cybercrime, Leukfeldt & Holt (eds)
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WK 6 A
19 Feb
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Criminal subcultures
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Mugari Chapter 4
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WK 6 B
21 Feb
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Social structures theories
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Study for exam
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WK 7 A
4 March
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Social structures theories cont’d
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Mid-term exam
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WK 7 B
6 March
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Crime trends, criminal careers and social control theories
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Mugari Chapter 5
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WK 8 A
11 March
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Interactionism and labelling theories
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Read Ending the Poverty to Prison Pipeline
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WK 8 B
13 March
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Radical and critical criminology
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Mugari Chapter 6
Watch TED Talk: What is it like to have a baby in prison?
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WK 9 A
18 March
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Feminist criminologies
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Lyons, et al (2017). Negotiating Violence in the Context of Transphobia and Criminalization: The Experiences of Trans Sex Workers in Vancouver, Canada. Qualitative Health Research, 27, 2, 182-190.
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WK 9 B
20 March
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Queering crime and justice
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Finish book reading notes
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WK 10 A
25 March
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Discussion of Venkatesh: Gang Leader for a Day
Or Bourgois: In Search of Respect
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WK 10 B
27 March
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Student presentations:
Drugs and crime
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Mugari Chapter 7
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WK 11 A
1 April
NO CLASS
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ITALIAN NATIONAL HOLIDAY
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WK 11 B
3 April
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Student presentations: White-collar crime/Crimes of the powerful
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Lynch, M. J. (2020). Green Criminology and Environmental Crime: Criminology That Matters in the Age of Global Ecological Collapse. Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime, 1(1), 50–61.
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WK 12 A
8 April
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Student presentations:
Crimes against persons or the environment
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Carrabine (2018). Media and crime. Chapter 33. DeKeseredy, W. S., & Dragiewicz, M. (Eds.). Routledge handbook of critical criminology
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WK 12 B
10 April
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Student presentations:
Crime and media
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WK 13 A
15 April
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Student presentations:
Open topics
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WK 13 B
17 April
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Victimization
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Issit, M. (2021). Opinions Throughout History: Law Enforcement in America. Ch. 29
PBS: Policing the Police
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WK 14 A
22 April
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Policing, present and future
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The power of touch
Ismail, N. (2020). Deterioration, drift, distraction, and denial: How the politics of austerity challenges the resilience of prison health governance and delivery in England. Health Policy, 124, 12, 1368-1378.
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WK 14 B
24 April
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Prisons: politics, economics, goals and outcomes
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Study for final exam
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FINAL EXAM
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