The course aims to provide students with the critical-interpretative tools to understand and analyze the processes of marginalization and definition of deviance, providing a broad historical and theoretical contextualization and deepening the issue of social control and disciplinary knowledge/powers.

The first part of the course analyzes the relationship between the construction of the social order and the categories of marginality-deviance, through a path that aims to deepen the main modern and contemporary political-social theories and the reflection of these on the theories of deviance and marginality. In the second part, there is an in-depth study relating to punitive power, as well as the birth and development of disciplinary powers and knowledge in the context of modern institutions.

Extended program.

-Introduction: transformations in the conceptions of the social order and representations of the criminal and crime

-From the social contract theory to the Enlightenment of Cesare Beccaria

-Positivism and positive school

-Sociology of the deviance of Émile Durkheim

-The crisis of the concept of state at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (Weber, Kelsen, Schmitt)

-Social control and deviance in the Chicago School

-The construction of "mass democracy" in Roosevelt's New Deal

-The theory of differential association

-Social control between consensual paradigm and anatomy theory (Parsons and Merton)

-From labeling theories to critical criminology (Wright Mills, Neo-Chicagoans, Matza, ethnomethodology, Goffman, and Foucault)

-From labeling theories to critical criminology (Wright Mills, Neo-Chicagoans, Matza, ethnomethodology, Goffman, and Foucault)

-The decades of the crisis: state, social control, and deviance today (ecology of fear)

-The criminal issue in Europe and Italy: the case of immigration

-The right to punish and disciplinary power

-The body of the condemned man and the splendor of the torture

-The sweetness of pains, docile bodies, training

-Popoptism and the prison

None

The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it

Supplementary seminars and other activities of possible interest to students will be communicated in class at the beginning of the course.

Teaching

Interactive frontal lessons. 

Attendance

Study of the indicated texts.

Course books

-Melossi D., Stato, controllo sociale, devianza, Mondadori, Milano, 2002.

-Foucault M., Sorvegliare e punire. Nascita della prigione, Einaudi, Torino, 2014.

Assessment

The learning verification will take place through an individual oral test. The assessment will focus on the knowledge of the contents of the textbooks and any other teaching materials provided by the teacher. The ability to re-elaborate and critically argue the topics and the property of language (mastery of the disciplinary technical language) will be particularly valued.

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.

Teaching

Individual study of the course books.

Attendance

Study of the indicated texts.

Course books

-Melossi D., Stato, controllo sociale, devianza, Mondadori, Milano, 2002.

-Foucault M., Sorvegliare e punire. Nascita della prigione, Einaudi, Torino, 2014.

Assessment

The learning verification will take place through an individual oral test. The assessment will focus on the knowledge of the contents of the textbooks and any other teaching materials provided by the teacher. The ability to re-elaborate and critically argue the topics and the property of language (mastery of the disciplinary technical language) will be particularly valued.

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.

The student can request to sit the final exam in English with an alternative bibliography.