SOCIOLOGIA DEL DIRITTO E DELLA DEVIANZA

Detailed Course Content

• THEMES AND PROSPECTS OF THE TRADITION OF DISCIPLINE

  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

• THEMES AND PROSPECTS OF THE TRADITION OF DISCIPLINE

  1) Grossi P. (2003), Prima lezione di diritto, Bari, Laterza: Parte I “Che cos’è il diritto?”, pp. 5-39;
  2) 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;
  3) 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.