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Crimonology
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:9.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:28:58
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | JF_340 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 1.00 | ECTS: | 1.50 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Law; Theory and History of Rights | Target Audience: | Person and Property Defence | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Andrejs Vilks | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 6 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 12 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 2 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 4 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 16 | ||||||||
| Part-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 2 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 4 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 1 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 2 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 6 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | It is necessary to complete the following study courses prior to this course: Theory of Law and Criminal Law. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To provide students with an opportunity to acquire knowledge of crime as one of the social phenomena, its causes, basic indicators of crime, as well as to understand various forms and methods of crime prevention, including the ability to apply the acquired knowledge in practical police work. Tasks: 1. Understand the role of criminology as part of social sciences and as a drive for crime prevention, including in the social system of Latvia. 2. Understand the causes of crime and the mechanism for committing criminal offences. 3. Learn the main causes of certain types of crime and prevention possibilities. 4. Learn the forms and methods to be used for crime prevention. 5. Be able to justify specific proposals for the prevention of crime on the basis of social, economic, legal and other aspects. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | The concept and subject of criminology. Crime. Causes and conditions contributing to crime. Crime and social deviations. Mechanism for committing a criminal offence. Profile of a criminal. Prevention of crime. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 2 | Victimology. Juvenile delinquency. Violent crime violentology. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Criminal offences against property. Economic crime. Corruption. Organised crime. Cybercrime. Situational crime. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Topic Layout (Part-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | The concept and subject of criminology. Crime. Causes and conditions contributing to crime. Crime and social deviations. Mechanism for committing a criminal offence. Profile of a criminal. Prevention of crime. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 2 | Victimology. Juvenile delinquency. Violent crime violentology. | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Criminal offences against property. Economic crime. Corruption. Organised crime. Cybercrime. Situational crime. | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Independent solving of practical tasks: - student research activity in preparing answers to practical tasks and preparing for seminars; - tests with practical tasks in order to acquire skills for application of theoretical knowledge in practice, control questions about the previous subject before starting a new topic; preparation of a report. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Successfully passed tests, practical work, participation in seminars and discussions. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Test | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | Test | ||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Able to demonstrate comprehensive and specialised knowledge and understanding of the nature and role of criminology, its formation and development, the place in the criminal justice system; able to demonstrate comprehensive and specialised knowledge and understanding of the causes and factors contributing to crime; a mechanism for committing criminal offences; problems of victimology science; certain forms and types of crime and crime prevention problems. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Able to analyse, synthesize and evaluate the eligibility of issues for criminology; able to independently analyse and evaluate crime as a social phenomenon and a continuous process in the society; able to conduct studies of different types of crime using the acquired theoretical knowledge. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Able to understand and analyse the role of criminology as social science that has the leading role in combating crime, including in the social system of Latvia; able to identify and analyse the main causes of crime and the mechanism of committing criminal offences. Students will have mastered the main causes and possibilities for preventing certain types of crime; will have acquired forms and methods of work used in crime prevention; will have developed ability to argue specific proposals for the prevention of crime, based on social, economic, legal and other aspects. Able to describe and analyse practical problems. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Vilks A., Kipāne A. Mūsdienu sabiedrības kriminoloģiskās problēmas. Rīga, 2020 | ||||||||
| 2 | Kriminoloģija. Rīga, Nordik, 2004. | ||||||||
| 3 | Kuks, D.u.c. Psiholoģija cietumā. Rīga, LPA, 1998. | ||||||||
| 4 | Smilgainis, V. Notikuma vietas apskates psiholoģija. Rīga, 1998. | ||||||||
| 5 | Soltera, A. Varmākas. Pedofīli, izvarotāji un citi. Adria Books, 2007. | ||||||||
| 6 | Vilks, A. Deviantoloģija (mācība par uzvedības sociālajām novirzēm) Tiesu namu aģentūra, 2001 | ||||||||
| 7 | Антонян, И. Личность преступника. Санкт-Петербург, 2004. | ||||||||
| 8 | Васильев, В.Л. Юридическая психология. М., 2004. | ||||||||
| 9 | Еникеев, М.И. Юридическая психология. Питер, 2004 | ||||||||
| 10 | Энциклопедия пхихологической безопастности. Феникс, 2007 | ||||||||
| 11 | Малкина-Пых И.Г. Психология поведения жертвы. Справочник практического психолога. М., 2006. | ||||||||
| 12 | Романов, В.В. Юридическая психология. М., 1999. | ||||||||
| 13 | Ривман, Д.В., Устинова В.С. "Виктимология". М., 2000. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Likums par policiju: LR likums. Ziņotājs Nr.37, 24.09.1992. | ||||||||
| 2 | Krimināllikums: LR likums. Latvijas Vēstnesis Nr.199/200, 08.07.1998. | ||||||||
| 3 | Kriminālprocesa likums: LR likums. Latvijas Vēstnesis Nr. 74 (3232), 11.05.2005. | ||||||||
| 4 | Par audzinoša rakstura piespiedu līdzekļu piemērošanu bērniem: LR likums. Latvijas Vēstnesis Nr.168 (2743), 19.11.2002. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | Banga E. Sodu politika kā brīdinājums // Jurista Vārds, 2006, nr.1 | ||||||||
| 2 | Baumanis J. Kriminālprocesuālā politika noziedzības profilakses jomā // Jurista Vārds, 2005, nr.45 | ||||||||
| 3 | Bahmanis K. Valsts kompensācija cietušajiem // Jurista Vārds, 04.11.2008 | ||||||||
| 4 | Bite L. Vardarbība pret sievieti ģimenē // Jurista Vārds, 07.08.2007 | ||||||||
| 5 | Gailīte D. Vai valstij ir jāmaksā upurim par noziedznieka nodarīto // Jurista Vārds, 28.08.2007 | ||||||||
| 6 | Kipāne A. Noziedzība sabiedrības drošības kontekstā // Jurista Vārds, 19.01.2010 | ||||||||
| 7 | Leja M. Noziedzīga nodarījuma izdarīšana aiz neuzmanības // Jurista Vārds, 14.06.2011 | ||||||||
| 8 | Miezāne E. Par preventīvu piespiedu līdzekļu ieviešanu Latvijas tiesību sistēmā // Jurista Vārds, 2011, nr.38 | ||||||||
| 9 | Žeivots M. Par policiju, pašvaldībām un sabiedrības drošību // Jurista Vārds, 2001, nr.17 | ||||||||
| 10 | Žeivots M. Lai novērstu noziegumu pirms tā izdarīšanas // Jurista Vārds, 2000, nr.20,21 | ||||||||
| 11 | Vilks A. Par pasaules globalizāciju un transnacionālās noziedzības apkarošanu // Jurista Vārds, 2000, nr.26 | ||||||||
| 12 | Vilks A. Noziedzīgos nodarījumos cietušo kriminoloģiskās problēmas // Jurista Vārds, 04.11.2008 | ||||||||
| 13 | Vītoliņš V. Sabiedriskās kārtības un drošības darbarīki // Jurista Vārds, 31.03.2009. | ||||||||
