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.
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.
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.
At the end of this course:
1. Students have acquired knowledge of main development of the history of crime and punishment from 1750 up until 1945.
2. 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.
3. Students understand how history can contribute to criminological study and know the possibilities and limits of historical criminological analysis.
4. Students know the historical antecedents of the number of current criminological issues
5. 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.
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:
Non applicable
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: 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)