Introduction to Criminology and Criminal Policy – ASC51PV20

Required optional course (Follow-up M.A. studies)

Lecturer: JUDr. J. Hulmáková, Ph.D.

In case of non-residential learning on-line lectures will be provided. In this case students will be in detail informed in time.

Examination: Oral

Number of credits: 4

Time allowance: 1/1

The course allows repeated enrolment

The course is an introduction to the basic and up-to-date knowledge about the methods and techniques of criminological research, dealing with etiology, phenomenology, prediction and prevention of crime. It covers the definition of criminology, its subject, position, and significance for other fields of science, it provides an overview of schools of criminology and its trends, as well as the state, structure and dynamics of crime; it also deals with such matters as the personality of an offender, victimology, prevention of crime, penology, including findings about the effectiveness of individual sanctions, juvenile delinquency, criminality among foreigners and ethnic minorities, recidivism and desistance.

Contents:

Place and tasks of criminology in the system of scientific disciplines about criminology, criminal policy and its significance

Criminological research and its methods

Criminological theory

The state, structure and dynamics of crime

Victimology

Restorative justice

Prevention of crime

Penology

Developmental and live coure theroies, recidivism, desistance

Juvenile delinquency

Criminality of foreigners and ethnic minorities

Recommended literature:

Válková, H., Kuchta, J. et al. Základy kriminologie a trestní politiky (Fundamentals of Criminology and Criminal Policy). 3rd edition. Praha: C. H. Beck, 2019

Gřivna, T., Scheinost, M., Zoubková, I. Et al. Kriminologie (Criminology). 5th edition updated. Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2019

From the series Studie a Prameny, the Institute of Criminology and Social Prevention, available at : http//www.ok.cz/iksp/p_stud.html

Articles in Česká kriminologie, available at: https://ceskakriminologie.cz/cs