Social Control Systems

Code:

C200

Acronym:

SCS

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Criminology

Instance: 2015/2016 - 1S (since 14-09-2015 to 18-12-2015)

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	51	Oficial Study Plan LC	2	-	6	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

To know, for each of the occidental social models, types and formations of social control. To understand concepts and theories on social control. To understand, in an integrated way, the criminal justice system and social control. To understand the functioning of order, deviance and control on occidental societies.

Learning outcomes and competences

Students, by the end of the semester, should be able to identify and describe different social control systems of modern and post-modern occidental societies, critically reasoning about them. They should also understand the dynamic mechanisms of constructing social control.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. Concept and theory of systems. Social control systems
2. Concepts of social control; other central concepts: governance, managerialism, discipline.
3. The most important models of social control: informal and formal, proactive and reactive, preventive and repressive. The criminal justice system and social control.
4. Some theories on social control: 
a) Foucault and discipline
b) critical criminology
c) S. Cohen: des-institutionalization and widening of the net
d) New Penology -  Feeley & Simon
e) Garland and the culture of control
f) Risk, crime and control
5. Some social control practices:
a) surveillance
b) policing
c) situational prevention
d) urban design
e) neighbourhood watch

Mandatory literature

Agra Cândido da 1948-; Science, maladie mentale et dispositifs de l.enfance
Black Donald; The^behavior of law. ISBN: 0-12-102650-7
Christie Nils; Au bout de nos peines. ISBN: 2-8044-1724-7
Christie Nils; Crime control as industry. ISBN: 0-415-23487-5
Cohen Stanley; Visions of social control. ISBN: 0-7456-0021-2
Foucault Michel 1926-1984; Surveiller et punir. ISBN: 2-07-072868-0
Foucault Michel 1926-1984; Histoire de la sexualité. ISBN: 2-07-074070-6
Foucault Michel 1926-1984; Em defesa da sociedade. ISBN: 85-336-1004-1
Foucault Michel 1926-1984; Sécurité, territoire, population. ISBN: 2-02-030799-5
Garland David; The^culture of control. ISBN: 0-226-28384-4
Innes Martin; Understanding social control. ISBN: 0-335-20940-8
Landreville Pierre; Normes sociales et normes pénales
Melossi, Dario; The^state of social control: a sociological study of concepts of state and social control.... ISBN: 9780312046347
Simon Jonathan; Governing through crime. ISBN: 978-0-19-538601-1

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.

keywords

Social sciences > Criminology

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	80,00
Trabalho escrito	20,00
Total:	100,00

Eligibility for exams

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Calculation formula of final grade

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Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

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Classification improvement

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