Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2500257 Criminology | OT | 4 | 1 |
The teacher responsable for the subject is Gustavo Fondevila Pérez (gustavo.fondevila@uab.cat).
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This course requires a B2 level of English.
- Understand the methodological problems related to the comparisons of crime across nations.
- Understand the way in which crime data are collected across nations.
- Understand the theoretical explanations of the evolution of crime across time and space.
- Understand how a historical and cultural approach can help to explore differences in crime and the use of punishment in different countries.
1. Introduction
2. Theories on comparative criminology
3. Comparing crime and punishment in different time, space, and cultures.
4. Culture and the explanation of crime and victims in comparative criminology
5. Convictions statistics in comparative criminology
6. Policing and police cultures.
7. Criminal policies in comparative perspective. Criminal policies and welfare models.
8. Victim surveys in comparative perspective
9. International crimes and international criminal justice system.
10. The future of comparative criminology.
- The course combines lectures and seminars. It requires reading a series of scientific articles for their discussion in class. In the seminars papers and other assignments will be discussed and submitted by the students.
- Before the starting of the course a detailed weekly schedule of activities will be provided.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Evaluation | 5 | 0.2 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11 |
Lectures | 18 | 0.72 | 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 |
Seminar | 18 | 0.72 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Required readings | 54.5 | 2.18 | 10 |
Written assignment | 54.5 | 2.18 | 1, 3, 4, 6, 10 |
Evaluation assignments:
- The evaluation takes into consideration:
Evaluation criteria:
- Essays out of time will not accepted and the student will get a fail mark (0), without possibility of late assignment. Only excuses based on illness or similar reasons may be accepted under proper justification.
- Plagiarism in essays will conduct to a fail mark (0) and the student will lose the right of a new assessment. In case of relapse, the student will obtain a fail mark for the whole course (0) and will lose the right of a new assessment.
- It's necessary to obtain a final mean grade of 5 in order to pass the course.
- A minimum of 80% attendance to lectures and seminaris is requited to be assessed (only absences due to illneess or similar reasons are accepted).
- Classes start on time. Late arrival is not admitted. Also, leaving the class before its end without proper justification is not permitted.
Single assessment system
It will consist of two exams:
1rst) 4 questions on the mandatory reading of the course
2nd) Exercise to show the skills to do a comparative criminology analysis.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Academic essay | 30% | 0 | 0 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 |
Article summary and presentation | 20% | 0 | 0 | 1, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10 |
Cultural analysis exercice | 10% | 0 | 0 | 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10 |
Multiple-choice exam | 25% | 0 | 0 | 2, 4, 5, 7, 8 |
Saminars participation activities | 15% | 0 | 0 | 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 |
Mandatory readings
Aebi M. & Linde A. (2015). The epistemological obstacles in comparative criminology: A special issue introduction. European Journal of Criminology, 12(4), 381-385. https://doi.org/10.1177/1477370815595311
Evans, T. D., Lagrange, R. L., & Willis, C. L. (1996). Theoretical development of comparative criminology: Rekindling an interest. International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, 20(1), 15-29. https://doi.org/10.1080/01924036.1996.9678559
Friedrichs, D. O. (2007). Transnational crime and global criminology: Definitional, typological, and contextual conundrums. Social Justice, 34(2), 4-18.
Karstedt, S. (2001). Comparing cultures, comparing crime: Challenges, prospects and problems for a global criminology. Crime, Law and Social Change, 36, 285-308. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1012223323445
Liu, J. (2007). Developing comparative criminology and the case of China: An introduction. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 51(1), 3-8. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306624X06295774
Marshall, I. H., & Marshall, C. E. (1983). Toward a refinement of purpose in comparative criminological research: Research site selection in focus. International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, 7(1-2), 89-97. https://doi.org/10.1080/01924036.1983.9688765
Nelken, D. (2002b). Comparing criminal justice. In M. Maguire, R. Morgan, & R. Reiner (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Criminology (3rd ed., pp. 175-202).Oxford University Press.
Nivette, A. (2014). Legitimacy and crime: Theorizing the role of the state in cross-national criminological theory. Theoretical Criminology, 18(1), 93-111.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1362480613499793
Sebba, L., & Berenblum, T. (2014). Victimology and the sociology of new disciplines: A research agenda. International review of victimology, 20(1), 7-30. https://doi.org/10.1177/0269758013511657
Complementary references
Cavadino, M. & J. Dignan (2006). Penal Systems: A Comparative Approach. Sage.
Chockalingam, K. (2000). Female infanticide-A victimological perspective. In P. C. Friday & G. K. Kirchhoff (Eds.), Victimology at the transition from the 20th to the 21st century (pp. 273-287). World Society of Victimology
Elias, N. (1939/2000). The Civilizing Process. Blackwell.
Flint, C., M. Harrower, and R. Edsall. 2000. But how does place matter? Using bayesian networks to explore a structural definition of place. Paper presented at the New Methodologies for the Social Sciences Conference. University of Colorado, Boulder.
Fotheringham, A. S., Brunsdon, C., & Charlton, M. E. (2002). Geographically weighted regression: The analysis of spatially varying relationships. Wiley.
Garland, D. (2001). The culture of control. Oxford University Press.
Gieryn, T. (2000). A space for place in sociology. Annual review of Sociology, 26, 463–496.
Hedderman, C., & Hough, M. (1994). Does thecriminal justice system treat men and women differently? (Home Office Research Findings No. 10). Home Office.
Herek, G. M. (1992). The social context of hate crimes: Notes on cultural heterosexism. In G. M. Herek & K. T. Berrill (Eds.), Hate crimes (pp. 89-104). Sage
Koss, M. P. (1996). The measurement of rape victimization in crime surveys. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 23, 55-69. https://doi.org/10.1177/0093854896023001
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Law, D. S. (2015). Judicial comparativism and judicial diplomacy. University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 927-1036.
Massa Roldan, R., Fondevila, G., & García-Tejeda, E. (2021). Female homicide victimisation in Mexico: a group-based trajectory and spatial study. Global Crime, 22(2), 123-142. DOI: 10.1080/17440572.2020.1869539
Messner, S. F. (2014). Social institutions, theory development, and the promise of comparative criminological research. Asian Journal of Criminology, 9, 49-63. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11417-013-9175-1
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Vilalta, C. J. (2013). How exactly does place matter in crime analysis? Place, space, and spatial heterogeneity. Journal of Criminal Justice Education, 24(3), 290-315. https://doi.org/10.1080/10511253.2012.715659
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The course does not requires of specific software.