After this course:
- the student has knowledge and insight in the basic themes and conceptual framework of criminology as a discipline
- the student has knowledge and insight into the characteristics of the current late modern context (as far as relevant for understanding contemporary crime and crime reaction discourses)
- the student understands the multidisciplinarity of criminology
- the student has knowlegde and insight in the basics of criminal law thinking, the basic Dutch criminal law principles and the role of criminal policy in criminal justice
- the student is capable to collect and process social scientific literature, to assess its value and to refer to it (conform APA style)
- the student has general academic capabilities (such as distuinguishing main and side issues, concretising abstract theory, reflecting critically, establish links between data).
- The student practiced argumentation skills
- The student further developed communication skills (both oral and written).
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After this course:
- the student has knowledge and insight in the basic themes and conceptual framework of criminology as a discipline
- the student has knowledge and insight into the characteristics of the current late modern context (as far as relevant for understanding contemporary crime and crime reaction discourses)
- the student understands the multidisciplinarity of criminology
- the student has knowlegde and insight in the basics of criminal law thinking, the basic Dutch criminal law principles and the role of criminal policy in criminal justice
- the student is capable to collect and process social scientific literature, to assess its value and to refer to it (conform APA style)
- the student has general academic capabilities (such as distuinguishing main and side issues, concretising abstract theory, reflecting critically, establish links between data).
- The student practiced argumentation skills
- The student further developed communication skills (both oral and written).
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Criminology is a multidisciplinary science occupied with understanding and explaining crime, the individuals committing crime, those who become victim to it and the plethora of possible social reactions tot his behaviour. Traditionally, criminology has a strong pragmatic tendency: criminologists have investigated how crime should be dealt with, best practices in terms of punishment, what prevention of crime should look like, et cetera. This course aims to give an introduction into the criminology discipline. First, the development of the discipline will be elaborated on; then students will get acquainted to the discipline through a thematic approach (please note: a chronological treatment of existing criminological theories is part of the follow-up course Advanced Criminology). We go into several criminological thematic areas, such as property crime, white collar crime (and crimes of the powerful), violent crime, state and corporate crime, and transnational organised crime. Moreover, we peak into penology, victimology and (government) reactions to crime. We place these criminal phenomena in the contemporary late modern context (and, thus, discuss concepts such as securitization, responsibilization, penal populism et cetera) and its significance for understanding current crime and crime policy discourses as they appear, for example, in the media.
In this variant of the course, targeting students with a social science background, the seminars are focusing on an introduction to criminal law, in order to understand legal thinking on a basic level.
Place of this course in the curriculum:
- Compulsory course in the minor Criminology for Social Science students
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