LEGAL AND DEVIANCE SOCIOLOGY
Course objectives
- Knowledge and skills of comprehension: The course aims at providing students with the formation of a robust basic culture based on the theoretical perspectives of deviance and social control and their function in industrial and post-industrial societies. In addition, the course includes the attainment of a comprehensive knowledge of the main lines of historical development of criminal and social control systems in modern Western societies. - Applied knowledge and understanding: The course provides for viluppointment of attitudes to knowledge and ready understanding of institutional messages (the international conventions, laws, reform projects, assistance, recovery and reparation policies). The primary objective will not be the formation of a culture of mere obedience but the development of the capacity for critical/analytical understanding of public policies, especially in the sphere of deprivation of liberty, de jure (prison, law enforcement, etc.) and de facto (Rsa, Rsd and nursing homes for the elderly), in order to foster professional adaptation to the plurality of contexts in which the Social Service operates. - Autonomy of judgement: The acquisition of different theoretical perspectives and the capacity for critical/analytical understanding will enable the growth of professional aptitudes (listening, reading and interpretation of the individual and/or group deviant phenomenon) in the subjective approach to the phenomenon of deviance and to persons labelled as deviant. - Communication skills: The course aims to enhance oral and written communication skills on the main topics of the discipline, the use of more appropriate argumentative modes and the use of more appropriate technical-disciplinary terminology, through diversified and interactive teaching methods. The final assessment will be based on the completeness of the treatment of the subject, the originality of the contents and the clarity of the exposition. - Ability to learn: In general, the course will tend to favour the development of knowledge and applied comprehension skills, the empowerment and autonomy of judgement of the future social worker in understanding deviant phenomena and the pathologies that he/she will be called to manage with particular attention to the culture of social control.
- Lesson code1043980
- Academic year2025/2026
- Coursecorso|33620
- CurriculumSingle curriculum
- Year1st year
- Semester2nd semester
- SSDSPS/12
- CFU6
- Subject areaAttività formative affini o integrative