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Actual Problems of Criminology and Penal Policy

Subject
Subject code SJIC7203
Subject name Actual Problems of Criminology and Penal Policy
Credit points 3 ECTS
Grading method Exam (letters)
Curriculum subject
Curriculum 2014 Vabaained
Study year 1
Semester Spring semester
Subject type Optional
Academicians
Priit Heinsoo
Peter Ruzsonyi
Aim
to provide the students with an overview of the conceptual principles and methods of analysis of contemporary criminology and the ability to implement them in national and international law enforcement operations in combating offenses, as well as different starting points forming penal policy making and objectives of imprisonment as part of the penal policy.
Literature
MANDATORY SOURCES:
Robert Martinson : “What Works?: Questions and Answers About Prison Reform.” The Public Interest 1974/35; pp 22-54
▪ Ervin Goffman: Asylums. Pinguen, London, 1974
▪ Peter Ruzsonyi: The role of criminal pedagogy in promoting prison adaptation and social reintegration. In: The implementation of prison sentences and aspects of security. Peter J.P.Tak – Manon Jendly (Eds), Wolf Legal Publishers 2006 pp 39-48. (http://fondationinternationalepenaleetpenitentiaire.org/Site/documents/popowo/Budapest/08.%20Budapest%20-%20Peter%20Ruzsonyi.pdf)
▪ Responsibility-taking; Relationship-building and Restoration in prisons. Barabas, T. – Fellegi, B – Windt. Sz. (Eds), P-T műhely; commisioned by National Institute of Criminology, Budapest, 2012 (http://foresee.hu/uploads/tx_abdownloads/files/MEREPS_FinalPublication_EN.pdf)

E. Rask: Kriminoloogia- sissejuhatus ainesse, Tallinn, Juura 2002
Kriminaalpoliitika arengusuunad aastani 2018, http://www.just.ee/arengusuunad2018

RECOMMENDED SOURCES:
Stephen Duguid: Can Prisons Work? The Prisoner as Object and Subject in Modern Corrections. University of Toronto Press, 2000, 298 pp.
▪ Stephen Duguid (2000): Can Prison Work? University of Toronto Press, Toronto
▪ Duguid, S. (1981): Rehabilitation Through Education: A Canadian Model. T.L.Morin (ed.). On Prison Education. Ottawa: Ministry of Supply & Services
Current rounds
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