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DROI1266 - Historical introduction to penal thought and criminology II
Credits :
5
Lecturer :
Mode of delivery :
Face-to-face , second term, 30 hours of theory.
Timetable :
Second term
Thursday from 10:45 to 12:45 at 109 Marais 512
Language of instruction :
French.
Learning outcomes :
By the end of the course the student should be able to situate the historical roots of contemporary thought on crime and penalty, as they appear in eighteenth and nineteenth century. Despite the inflections of the different currents and the different theories examined, the aim will be to understand the cultural invariants (and deadlocks) of the modern penal rationality.
Prerequisites :
None
Co-requisites :
 For the Bachelor in Law :
For the Bachelor in Information and Communication :
For the Bachelor in Political Sciences: General :
For the Bachelor in Sociology and Anthropology :
Course contents :
This course will study:
1) how transgression is conceived and how penal rationality is set in the eighteenth century;
2) how philanthropists and psychiatrists have taken hold of a number of social and psychological problems related to crime;
3) how the "organic" criminal figure emerges at the end of the nineteenth century and simplifies earlier intellectual constructions;
4) how, from this "objectification" of the criminal's “nature”, criminology grows as a seemingly autonomous discipline.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
The course is a lecture taught by the professor that will present the essential articulations of the theories studied. A book very much inspired the course: its reading is compulsory and will help the students find substantial support to study the subject "in full knowledge of the facts". It is: Debuyst Chr., Digneffe Fr., Pires A.P., Labadie J.-M., Histoire des savoirs sur le crime et la peine, tome 1, Bruxelles, Larcier, 2008 (2e éd.)
Assessment methods and criteria :
The course will be assessed by an examination. The examination will be a MCQ for undergraduate students in social sciences. It will be a MCQ and a written test ("development" questions) for Bachelor of Laws students.
Recommended or required reading :
Debuyst Chr., Digneffe Fr., Pires A.P., Labadie J.-M., Histoire des savoirs sur le crime et la peine, tome 1, Bruxelles, Larcier, 2008 (2e éd.)
Other information :
The book mentioned (see above) and a summary provided by the professor, are the supports of the course.
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