Social Control Systems

Code:

C200

Acronym:

SCS

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Criminology

Instance: 2007/2008 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Course/CS Responsible:	Criminology

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
C	27	Oficial Study Plan LC	2	-	6	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

- Understanding and distinguishing different kinds of normativities, as well as the processes underlying its evolution
- Understanding concepts and theories of social control
- Understanding the processes of criminalization in its relationship with the functioning of social control instances
- Viewing the criminal phenomenon through the processes of regulation and governance

Program

1. Concept and theory of systems
2. Concept of social control: normativity and its typologies (law, rule, value); regulation, governance, managerialism and the criminal phenomenon.
3. Theories of social control
4. The two major systems: formal social control and informal social control
5. Trends for criminalization and decriminalization; primary and secondary criminalization
6. Normativity’s evolution in the dialectics of control systems and social systems; disorder, order and social organization
7. Empirical research on behaviour of the law, human behaviour and its relationships

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical sessions are used to describe and discuss the main contents of the program. Practice sessions are orientated toward the analysis and discussion of scientific literature and other resources previously prepared by the students.

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Subject Classes	Participação presencial	55,00
	Total:	-	0,00

Eligibility for exams

See general rules

Calculation formula of final grade

See general rules

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

See general rules

Classification improvement

See general rules

Observations

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Agra, C. d. (1998). Entre droga e crime: actores, espaços e trajectórias. Lisboa: Notícias.

Bertalanffy, L. v. (1968). General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications. New York: George Braziller.

Black, D. (1976). The behavior of law. New York: Academic Press.

Brodeur, J.-P., & Landreville, P. (1979). Finalités du système de l'adiministration de la justice pénale et planification des politiques. Montréal: Université de Montréal.

Christie, N. (2000). Crime control as industry: towards Gulags, western style (3ª ed.). London: Routledge.

Cohen, S. (1985). Visions of social control: crime, punishment and classification (2005 – reimp.). Cambridge: Polity Press.

Foucault, M. (1975). Surveiller et punir: naissance de la prison. Paris: Gallimard.

Foucault, M. (1997). If faut défendre la socíété: cours au Collège de France (1975-1976). Paris: Gallimard.

Foucault, M. (2004). Sécurité, territoire, population: Cours au Collège de France (1977-1978). Paris: Gallimard.

Garland, D. (2002). The culture of control: crime and social order in contemporary society. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Landreville, P. (1983). Normes sociales et normes pénales: notes pour una analyse socio-politique des normes. Montréal: Université de Montréal.

Luhmann, N. (1995). Social systems. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Teubner, G. (1993). O direito como sistema autopoiético. Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.