Content (Syllabus outline)
- Development of criminology through history
- An overview of main criminological theories
o biosocial perspectives
o psychological perspectives
o rational choice
o developmental perspectives
o structural perspectives
o social processes
o cultural conflict
o integrative perspectives
- Patterns of crime
o categories of criminal offences
o typologies of criminal offenders
o the meaning of phenomenological categories
- Official crime statistics
o police crime statistics
o court crime statistics
o other sources of information on crime
- Victimology
o foundation and development of victimology
o division of victimological theories
- Crime victim surveys
o ICVS
- Trends in victimology
o studies on victims – victim support
o studies on specific victims of crime (structural violence)
o victimology and crime prevention
o crime, victims and victimization surveys
o challenges of contemporary victimology
- Criminology and penology
- Criminology and crime prevention
Learning and teaching methods
- The course will consist of lectures, discussions, case studies, individual and group projects. The tutorials will be conducted with the students.
Readings
- Eman, K. in Hacin, R. (2021). Uvod v kartiranje kriminalitete (1. izd.). Univerza v Mariboru, Univerzitetna založba.
- Kanduč, Z. (1999). Kriminologija: (stran)poti vede o (stran)poteh. Inštitut za kriminologijo pri Pravni fakulteti.
- Kanduč, Z. (2003). Onkraj zločina in kazni. Študentska založba.
- Kanduč, Z. (2007). Subjekti in objekti (ne)formalne družbene kontrole v kontekstu postmodernih tranzicij. Inštitut za kriminologijo pri Pravni fakulteti.
- Kanduč, Z. (2013). Politika, pravo, ekonomija in kriminal: kriminološke refleksije postmoderne družbe in kulture. Inštitut za kriminologijo pri Pravni fakulteti.
- Meško, G. (1997). Družinske vezi na zatožni klopi?: o kriminalnem življenjskem stilu in o moči in nemoči obravnavanja kriminalnih prestopnikov. Educy.
- Meško, G. (2016). Kriminologija. Fakulteta za varnostne vede.
- Meško, G. in Jere, M. (2012). Crime, criminal justice and criminology in Slovenia. European Journal of Criminology, 9(3), 323–334.
- Šelih, A. in Meško, G. (2011). Slovenian criminology – An overview. V G. Meško, A. Sotlar in J. Winterdyk (ur.), Policing in Central and Eastern Europe – Social control of unconventional deviance: Conference proceedings, [Ljubljana, Slovenia, 22–24 September 2010] (str. 13–33). Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security.
