SOCIOLOGIA DEL DIRITTO E DELLA DEVIANZA

Learning Objectives

• TEMI E PROSPETTIVE DELLA TRADIZIONE DISCIPLINARE
  The first teaching module of the Sociology of Law and deviance course aims to provide students with the conceptual and methodological tools necessary to deal with the analysis of the law in its dimension of social phenomenon.
• Deviance, Social Control and Deterrence
  The second teaching module of the Sociology of Law course and deviance aims to provide students with the conceptual and methodological tools necessary to deal with the analysis of the main theories concerning the concept of deviance and the corresponding models of explanation of the phenomenon in reference to social organizations highly differentiated.

Detailed Course Content

• TEMI E PROSPETTIVE DELLA TRADIZIONE DISCIPLINARE

  The first teaching module of the course introduces the student to the study of law as mode of social action, as a system of social action and aims to cover the following topics: a) most relevant epistemological and methodological aspects of sociology of law; b) purposes, methods and characteristics of sociological knowledge and legal knowledge on the law.

• Deviance, Social Control and Deterrence

  The second teaching module of the course explores the processes of construction, definition and treatment of deviance by control agencies, social theorists, media and public opinion. In particular, they will address the different theories developed for understanding the phenomena of deviance in a sociological perspective (different from those psychiatric or criminological strictly speaking).

Textbook Information

• TEMI E PROSPETTIVE DELLA TRADIZIONE DISCIPLINARE

  Grossi P. (2003), Prima lezione di diritto, Bari, Laterza: Parte I “Che cos’è il diritto?”, pp. 5-39;
  Cottino A. (edited by) (2016), Lineamenti di sociologia del diritto, Torino, Zanichelli Editore: Capitolo I “L’approccio sociologico al diritto”, pp. 3-36 e Chapter IV “Cultura giuridica interna e cultura giuridica esterna”, pp. 161-208;
  Vogliotti M. (edited by) (2013), Saggi sulla globalizzazione giuridica e il pluralismo normativo. From Il tramonto della modernità giuridica. Un percorso interdisciplinare, Torino, G. Giappichelli Editore. Writings by Massimo Vogliotti; François Ost; Maria Rosaria Ferrarese, pp. 1-76.

• Deviance, Social Control and Deterrence

  Scarscelli D., Vidoni Guidoni O. (2008), la devianza. Teorie e politiche di controllo. Roma, Carocci editore.