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Subject 'Actual Problems of Criminology and Penal Policy'

Name in Estonian: Kriminoloogia ja karistuspoliitika aktuaalseid probleeme

Year:   2013/2014    2014/2015    2015/2016    2016/2017    2017/2018    

State codeSJIC7203
Study languageEstonian
ChairSisejulgeoleku instituut (eng)
Credit points 3 ECTS
Grading method Exam (letters)

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

Is taught in following curricula

2018: AvatAkad*  
2017: AvatAkad*  
2016: AvatAkad*  
2015: AvatAkad*  Vabaained*  
2014: AvatAkad*  Vabaained*  
2013: AvatAkad*  MSI*  Vabaained*  
2012: AvatAkad*  MSI*  Vabaained*  
2011: AvatAkad*  MSI*  Vabaained*  
2010: AvatAkad*  MSI*  
2009: MSI*  
* Optional subject
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