The aim of the course is to provide postgraduate students with theoretical insight into the field of sociological approaches that have been formulated regarding "crime" and its treatment.
The course material is listed as follows:
(a) Crime as a historical and social phenomenon, Theoretical approaches to crime: Classicism and early positivism - Italian Positivist School.
(b) Theoretical approaches to crime: sociological positivism - Cartographic School and Chicago School.
(c) Modern positivist approaches to crime.
(d) Victimological approach.
(e) "New" Criminology: A critical approach to crime.
(f) Anti-crime policy models. Anti-crime policy in modern Greece.
(g) "Criticism of anti-crime policy and new proposals: The emphasis on effectiveness and zero tolerance.".
(h) "Criticism of anti-crime policy and new proposals: The privatization of social control".
(i) "Criticism of anti-crime policy and new proposals: The socialization of social control".
(I) New Anti-Crime Policy: Abolitionism.
