Chapters on social deviance - ASGV00587

• Title: Chapters on social deviance
• Guaranteed by: Department of Sociology (21-KSOC)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2017
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Mgr. Zuzana Podaná, Ph.D.; doc. PhDr. Jiří Buriánek, CSc.
• Class: Exchange - 08.9 Others-Humanities; Exchange - 14.2 Sociology; Exchange - 14.4 Psychology and Behav. Sciences
• Is incompatible with: ASGV00568

Annotation

Lectures will discuss selected issues from the sociology of social deviance and will introduce basic approaches to its research, theoretical background and actual knowledge based on research studies conducted by the department (in CR/EU).
Spring semester 2017: The course starts in the second week of the semester, i.e. on Tuesday 28th.

Last update: PODAZ8AF (17.02.2017)

Literature

Obligatory literature

Texts assigned during the semester (via Moodle).

 

Recommended literature

J. Buriánek, S. Pikálková, Z. Podaná: Abused, battered, or stalked: violence in intimate partner relations gendered. Prague: Karolinum, 2016.

D. P. Farrington: Saving children from a life of crime : early risk factors and effective interventions. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

H. Johnson, N. Ollus, S. Nevala: Violence Agains Women. Springer, 2008.

A. Marešová et al.: Crime in the Czech Republic in 2010. Prague, IKSP, 2012. (www.ok.cz/iksp/docs/398.pdf)

J. R. Meloy: The psychology of stalking : clinical and forensic perspectives. San Diego : Academic Press, c1998.

L. J. Siegel, B. C. Welsh: Juvenile delinquency : theory, practice, and law. Belmont : Cengage Learning, 2008.

Last update: PODAZ8AF (24.05.2016)

Requirements to the exam

Final test on topics covered during the semester.

If there are serious reasons, students are allowed to take the test later than immediately after the end of the semester.

Last update: PODAZ8AF (06.09.2016)

Syllabus

Topics (selection):

−        social deviance and crime

−        crime trend and structure in the Czech Republic

−        juvenile delinquency

−        domestic violence

−        stalking

−        sexual deviance

−        trust in justice

−        fear of crime

−        corruption

−        organized crime

Last update: PODAZ8AF (24.05.2016)