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Introduction to criminology and criminal policy - ASC51PV20
Title: Úvod do kriminologie a trestní politiky
Guaranteed by: Department of Social Work (21-KSOCP)
Faculty: Faculty of Arts
Actual: from 2022 to 2023
Semester: summer
Points: 0
E-Credits: 4
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
Capacity: 20 / unknown (20)
Min. number of students: 10
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: JUDr. Mgr. Jana Hulmáková, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): JUDr. Mgr. Jana Hulmáková, Ph.D.
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Last update: JUDr. Mgr. Jana Hulmáková, Ph.D. (05.02.2024)

Introduction to Criminology and Criminal Policy  – ASC51PV20

Required optional course (Follow-up M.A. studies)

Lecturer: JUDr. J. Hulmáková, Ph.D.

In case of non-residential learning on-line lectures will be  provided. In this case students will be in detail informed in time.

Examination: Oral

Number of credits: 4

Time allowance: 1/1

The course allows repeated enrolment

 

The course is an introduction to the basic and up-to-date knowledge about the methods and techniques of criminological research, dealing with  etiology, phenomenology, prediction and prevention of crime. It covers the definition of criminology, its subject, position, and significance  for other fields of science, it provides an overview of schools of criminology and its trends, as well as the state, structure and dynamics  of crime;  it also deals with such matters as  the personality of an offender, victimology,  prevention of crime, penology, including findings about the effectiveness of individual sanctions, juvenile delinquency, criminality among foreigners and ethnic minorities, recidivism and desistance.

 

Contents:

Place and tasks of criminology in the system of scientific disciplines about criminology, criminal policy and its significance          

Criminological research and its methods

Criminological theory 

The state, structure and dynamics of crime

Victimology

Restorative justice

Prevention of crime

Penology

Developmental and live coure theroies, recidivism, desistance

Juvenile delinquency 

Criminality of foreigners and ethnic minorities

Recommended literature:

Válková, H., Kuchta, J. et al. Základy kriminologie a trestní politiky (Fundamentals of Criminology and Criminal Policy). 3rd edition. Praha: C. H. Beck, 2019

Gřivna, T., Scheinost, M., Zoubková, I. Et al. Kriminologie (Criminology). 5th edition updated. Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2019

From the series Studie a Prameny, the Institute of Criminology and Social Prevention, available at : http//www.ok.cz/iksp/p_stud.html

Articles in Česká kriminologie, available at: https://ceskakriminologie.cz/cs

 

 

 
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