The course aims to provide students with the critical-interpretative tools to understand and analyze the processes of the 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 leading 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 and the birth and development of disciplinary powers and knowledge in the context of modern institutions.

Extended program.

-Lesson 1. Introduction: the conceptions of the social order and the representations of the criminal and crime

-Lesson 2. From the social contract theory to the Enlightenment of Cesare Beccaria.

-Lesson 3. Positivism and positive school.

-Lesson 4. Sociology of the deviance of Émile Durkheim.

-Lesson 5. The crisis of the concept of the State at the turn of the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries (Weber, Kelsen, Schmitt).

-Lesson 6. Social control and deviance in the Chicago School.

-Lesson 7. The construction of "mass democracy" in Roosevelt's New Deal (

-Lesson 8. The theory of differential association.

-Lesson 9. Social control between consensual paradigm and anomie theory (Parsons and Merton).

-Lesson 10. From labeling theories to critical criminology (Neo-Chicagoans, Matza, ethnomethodology, Goffman, and Foucault).

-Lesson 11. The decades of the crisis: "ecology of fear".

-Lesson 12. The criminal issue in Europe and Italy: the case of immigration.

-Lesson 13. The right to punish and disciplinary power.

-Lesson 14. From the splendor of the torture to the "sweetness of pains". 

-Lesson 15. The discipline: the docile bodies and the techniques of training.

-Lesson 16. Panopticism and the prison. 

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To pass the exam, students must:

a) Demonstrate having understood the main contents of the course, by means of a study that is not merely mnemonic. Demonstrate having acquired a critical view, through the ability to re-elaborate the main political-social categories and analyzing with a diachronic perspective the historical transformations object of the program (knowledge and understanding).

b) Demonstrate discussing theoretical problems and knowing how to expose them with properties of language and argumentation. Being able to make interdisciplinary connections. Being able to extrapolate theoretical contents and practical examples presented a "situated" knowledge that can be related to professional experience (applying knowledge and understanding).

c) Demonstrate having the ability to autonomously integrate one's knowledge, and develop curiosity and a critical spirit, through active participation in debates with other students. Actively participating in the moments of reflection proposed by the teacher starting from stimuli presented in the classroom and be able to argue an anthological passage or other supporting teaching material (making judgments).

d) Knowing how to expose theoretical concepts effectively and clearly. Acquiring the technical language of the discipline (communication skills).

e) Be able to develop learning meta-skills and the ability to independently and critically evaluate one's own study method. Learning from the relationship with the teacher and other students (learning skills).

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. 

Innovative teaching methods

The lessons may be integrated with group laboratory activities (debates, reality tasks), also proposed through the Moodle platform, followed by collective discussion in the classroom.

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.