6 ECTS credits
150 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 1023275ANR for all students in the 2nd semester at a (A) Bachelor - preliminary level.

Semester
2nd semester
Enrollment based on exam contract
Impossible
Grading method
Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
Can retake in second session
Yes
Taught in
Dutch
Faculty
Faculty of Law and Criminology
Department
Criminology
Educational team
Margo De Koster (course titular)
Activities and contact hours
26 contact hours Lecture
Course Content

The historical Criminlogy course is concerned with the historical development of crime, crime control and punishment since 1750, in Western countries and in Belgium in particular. Attention is paid for example, to evolution penal law and punishment, development of modern policy and the modern penitentiary system, the rise of scientific studies of crime and the criminal aswell as changing interpretations and manifestations of criminal behaviours over time such as violence gangs, property crimes, and particular social (political, economic, cultural) contexts in which they occur. Further this course also adresses both the added value and the pitfalls of historical criminological analyses, these are made clear to the students via case-studies, in which current criminological issues are viewed from an historical perspective.

Course material
Handbook (Required) : Historische criminologie, Een inleiding, M. De Koster, 2de, Acco, 9789462925304, 2016
Digital course material (Required) : Reader, met hoofdstukken uit Fijnaut, C. (2014). Criminologie en strafrechtsbedeling. Een historische en transatlantische inleiding (Antwerpen/Den Haag: Intersentia/Boom)., Canvas
Digital course material (Required) : Powerpoint slides of the lectures, Canvas
Additional info

The course will take place on campus and/or online, depending on the corona-measures taken by the authorities and the availability of classrooms.

Digital lectures will be available for working students. More information will be communicated via the course unit platform in Canvas.

Learning Outcomes

General competencies

At the end of this course:

  • Students have acquired knowledge of main development of the history of crime and punishment from 1750 up until 1945.
  • Students are able to interrelate historical phenomena and processes in the different domains studied (criminal behaviours, crime control, visions on and practices of punishment) and situate them in their specific social context, as well to identify, for each of these domains, the major evolutions and shifts between 1750-1945.
  • Students understand how history can contribute to criminological study and know the possibilities and limits of historical criminological analysis.
  • Students know the historical antecedents of the number of current criminological issues
  • Students are able to identify a few continuities and discontinuities between a current issue and past developments in the fields of crime and criminal justice.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Written Exam determines 100% of the final mark.

Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • Written Exam with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 100% of the final mark.

Additional info regarding evaluation

Non applicable

Allowed unsatisfactory mark
The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context

This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Psychology: Profile Profile Work and Organisational Psychology (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Psychology: Profile Profile Clinical psychology (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Criminology: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of History: Minor Minor Human Sciences (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of History: minor Social Sciences (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Adult Education: Profile Cultural Studies (only offered in Dutch)