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Criminology
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:14.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:29:53
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | JF_081 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Law; Criminal Rights | Target Audience: | Juridical Science | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Aldona Kipāne | ||||||||
| 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) | 11 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 22 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 5 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 10 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 32 | ||||||||
| Part-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 4 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 8 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 1 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 2 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 10 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Administrative Law, Administrative Process, Practical Communication, Legal Institutions, Criminal Law. General Part, Criminal Law. Special Part, Criminal Process. General Part, Criminal Process. Special Part. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To acquaint students with the trends of crime as a social phenomenon, its situation, factors influencing it, the personality of the offender, the mechanism of criminal offenses and the system of prevention thereof; special attention will be paid to methods and techniques of studying crime, promoting the acquisition of practical knowledge and skills, exploring criminogenic and anti-social processes and phenomena in Latvia and abroad, as well as developing and implementing recommendations for the prevention and combating of crime. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Subject and concept of criminology. Structure and system of criminology. Tasks and functions of criminology. Methodology and methods of studying crime. The essence and content of criminological research. General problems in the prevention of crime. Political, economic, social, legal and other measures to prevent crime. General and specific crime prevention measures. Joint, specific and individual crime prevention. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | History of development of criminology in Latvia. Criminal law system of Latvia and criminology. Development of criminology as a science in Latvia. Development of criminology abroad. Foreign institutions of criminology. Criminogenic trends and crime abroad. Sports criminology. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | The concept and essence of criminological victimology. Historical aspects of the formation and development of victimology. Tasks of victimology and crime warning. Crime factors. Concept of a factor. Investigation of crime factors – functional relationship, conditional relationship, statistical relationship, causal chains. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | The concept and essence of crime. Qualitative and quantitative attributes of crime. State of crime and public danger. Types and structure of crime. Dynamics of crime. Crime rate. Territorial peculiarities of crime. Latent crime. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | The concept of personality and offender’s personality and the essence thereof. Aims and tasks of studying the offender’s personality. Basic features of the criminological characterisation of the offender’s personality. Structure of the offender’s personality. The offender’s criminological characterisation. Socio-demographic characteristics of the offender’s personality. Social roles and relationships of offender’s personality in various spheres of public life. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 6 | Violent crime – violentology. The concept and essence of violent crime. Criminological characterisation of violent crime: state, structure, dynamics and level. Criminological characterisation of certain types of violent crimes: murder, bodily harm, robbery, rape, bombing, illicit use of firearms, etc. Criminological characterisation and peculiarities of violent crime subjects. Mechanism of violent crime. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Concept, content and essence of crime against property. Criminological characterisation of theft, fraud, extortion and other crimes: state, level, dynamics and structure. Material losses and consequences of crimes against property. Criminological characterisation of subjects of crimes against property. Characterisation of the causes and contributing circumstances of crimes against property. Prevention of crimes against property. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | International criminal offenses and criminal offenses/crime of international character. Situation, trends and structure of international crime. Causes of international crime. Integration of Latvia into the EU and development trends in transnational crime. International crime prevention system, UN, EU, Interpol, Europol activities to prevent and combat crime. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Juvenile delinquency. Economic crime. Female crime. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | Organised crime. Terrorism. Cybercrime. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| Topic Layout (Part-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Subject and concept of criminology. Structure and system of criminology. Tasks and functions of criminology. Methodology and methods of studying crime. The essence and content of criminological research. General problems in the prevention of crime. Political, economic, social, legal and other measures to prevent crime. General and specific crime prevention measures. Joint, specific and individual crime prevention. | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | History of development of criminology in Latvia. Criminal law system of Latvia and criminology. Development of criminology as a science in Latvia. Development of criminology abroad. Foreign institutions of criminology. Criminogenic trends and crime abroad. Sports criminology. | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | The concept and essence of criminological victimology. Historical aspects of the formation and development of victimology. Tasks of victimology and crime warning. Crime factors. Concept of a factor. Investigation of crime factors – functional relationship, conditional relationship, statistical relationship, causal chains. | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | The concept and essence of crime. Qualitative and quantitative attributes of crime. State of crime and public danger. Types and structure of crime. Dynamics of crime. Crime rate. Territorial peculiarities of crime. Latent crime. | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | The concept of personality and offender’s personality and the essence thereof. Aims and tasks of studying the offender’s personality. Basic features of the criminological characterisation of the offender’s personality. Structure of the offender’s personality. The offender’s criminological characterisation. Socio-demographic characteristics of the offender’s personality. Social roles and relationships of offender’s personality in various spheres of public life. | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Violent crime – violentology. The concept and essence of violent crime. Criminological characterisation of violent crime: state, structure, dynamics and level. Criminological characterisation of certain types of violent crimes: murder, bodily harm, robbery, rape, bombing, illicit use of firearms, etc. Criminological characterisation and peculiarities of violent crime subjects. Mechanism of violent crime. | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Concept, content and essence of crime against property. Criminological characterisation of theft, fraud, extortion and other crimes: state, level, dynamics and structure. Material losses and consequences of crimes against property. Criminological characterisation of subjects of crimes against property. Characterisation of the causes and contributing circumstances of crimes against property. Prevention of crimes against property. | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | International criminal offenses and criminal offenses/crime of international character. Situation, trends and structure of international crime. Causes of international crime. Integration of Latvia into the EU and development trends in transnational crime. International crime prevention system, UN, EU, Interpol, Europol activities to prevent and combat crime. | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Juvenile delinquency. Economic crime. Female crime. | Classes | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | Organised crime. Terrorism. Cybercrime. | Classes | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Finishes homework, prepares practical work and presents it. In order to evaluate the quality of the study course as a whole, the student must fill out the study course evaluation questionnaire on the Student Portal. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | The total assessment of the study course consists of the following: homework – 10%, independent work – 10%, presentation of independent work – 30% and exam assessment – 50%. When the grade must be decided on, the student’s performance during the semester is taken into account. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Students are able to demonstrate the basic and specialised knowledge characteristic to criminology science and a critical understanding of this knowledge. Students are able to demonstrate understanding of the most important concepts and regularities in criminology science. | ||||||||
| Skills: | The student is able to use theoretical foundations and skills acquired in order to formulate and analytically describe information, problems and solutions in criminology, to explain these and to discuss them in a reasoned way. The student is able to demonstrate a scientific approach to problem solving. The student is able to structure their learning independently. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Students are able to obtain, select and analyse information and use it independently. Students are able to make decisions and solve criminological problems. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Kriminoloģija. Mācību grāmata / zinātn.red. K.Ķipēna, A.Vilks. 2004. Rīga: Nordik. | ||||||||
| 2 | Vilks, A., Kipāne, A. 2020. Mūsdienu sabiedrības kriminoloģiskie aspekti. Rīga. | ||||||||
| 3 | Zahars, V. 2017. Noziedzības ekonomiskie un sociālpsiholoģiskie determinanti. Daugavpils: Daugavpils universitātes akadēmiskais apgāds "Saule". | ||||||||
| 4 | Leps, A. 2016. Modern Dialectical Criminology. A new perspective on study of Criminology. Tallin: EuroAcademy. | ||||||||
| 5 | Baumanis, J. 2017. Krimināltiesību normu interpretācijas līdz kvantu kriminoloģijai. Rīga: Latvijas Vēstnesis. | ||||||||
| 6 | Baumanis, J. 2018. Ceļā uz kriminālprocesa mērķi jeb kriminoloģiskie gēni. Rīga: Latvijas Vēstnesis. | ||||||||
| 7 | Klarks, R.V., Eks, Dž.E. Noziedzības analīze 60 soļos. Problēmorientēta policijas darba centrs. | ||||||||
| 8 | Siegel, L.J. 2013. Criminolgy: Theories, Patterns and Typologies. Blemont: Cengage Learning. | ||||||||
| 9 | Criminology / C. Hale, K. Hayward, A. Wahidin, E. Wincup. 2013. 3rd edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. | ||||||||
| 10 | Williams, K.S. 2012. Textbook on Criminology. 7th edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press | ||||||||
| 11 | Burke, H.R. 2009. An Introduction to Criminological Theory. 3rd edition. Willan Publishing. | ||||||||
| 12 | SOKRATES Rīgas Stradiņa universitātes Juridiskās fakultātes elektroniskais juridisko zinātnisko rakstu žurnāls | ||||||||
| 13 | Osipova, S. 2010. Ievads tiesību socioloģijā. Rīga: Tiesu namu aģentūra. | ||||||||
| 14 | Maguire, M., Morgan, R., Reiner, R. 1997. The Oxford Handbook of Criminology. New York: University Press, Inc. | ||||||||
| 15 | Zīle, J. 2002. Cietušais krimināltiesisko zinātņu skatījumā. Rīga: Latvijas Vēstnesis. | ||||||||
| 16 | Seps, Dz. 1995. Nepilngadīgo likumpārkāpumu kriminoloģiskās problēmas. Rīga: Latvijas Policijas akadēmija. | ||||||||
| 17 | Stumbiņa, Ē., Birkavs, V., Niedre, A. 1981. Kriminoloģija. Rīga: Zvaigzne. | ||||||||
| 18 | Birkavs, V. 1986. Zinātne – pret noziedzību. Rīga. | ||||||||
| 19 | Vilks, A. 2001. Deviantoloģija. Mācība par uzvedības sociālajām novirzēm. Rīga: Tiesu namu aģentūra. | ||||||||
| 20 | Kristapsone, S. 2003. Noziedzība Latvijā (noziedzību noteicošie sociāli ekonomiskie faktori Latvijā 90. gados). Rīga: Raka. | ||||||||
| 21 | Vilks, A. Noziedzīgos nodarījumos cietušo kriminoloģiskās problēmas // Jurista vārds 2008.gads 4.novembris, Nr. 42 (547) | ||||||||
| 22 | Judins, A. Recidīva rādītāji, to noteikšanas kārtība un piemērošana Valsts probācijas dienesta un Ieslodzījumu vietu pārvaldes darbā. Rīga: Valsts probācijas dienests. | ||||||||
| 23 | Globālā krīze: kriminālo realitāšu aprises. Starptautiskais zinātnisko darbu krājums. Par Baltijas kriminoloģiskās konferences „Sabiedrība. Cilvēks. Drošiba. 2009.’’ Materiāliem. 2009. gada 2.–3. aprīlī. Rīgā, Latvijā. Baltijas Starptautiskā akadēmija, Rīga. | ||||||||
| 24 | Drošība un tiesiskums Latvijā. Zinātnisko rakstu krājums. 2007. Latvijas Universitātes Filozofijas un socioloģijas institūts. Rīga. | ||||||||
| 25 | Vilks, A. 2008. Narkokriminoloģija. Rīga: Drukātava. | ||||||||
| 26 | Ugrjumovs, A. 1922. Noziedzības cēloņi un apkarošanas līdzekļi. Rīga: Tieslietu ministrijas vēstnesis, Nr.6. | ||||||||
| 27 | Vilks, A. 2002. Latvijas kriminālās dimensijas: tendenču analīzes un nākotnes vīzijas. Zinātniskais pētījums. Sociālekonomiskā procesa trajektorija Latvijā no 1985. līdz 2002. gadam. Kur tā ved Latviju? Ventspils: Ventspils Augstskola, 319-333 lpp. | ||||||||
| 28 | Krimināllikums. Latvijas Republikas likums ar grozījumiem, Pieņemts Latvijas Republikas Saeimā 17.06.1998., stājies spēkā 01.04.1999. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Žurnāls Jurista vārds | ||||||||
| 2 | Žurnāls Administratīvā un Kriminālā Justīcija | ||||||||
| 3 | Iekšlietu ministrijas Informācijas centra mājas lapa | ||||||||
| 4 | Valsts policijas mājas lapa | ||||||||
| 5 | Latvijas tiesu portāls | ||||||||
| 6 | Daugavpils Universitātes Sociālo zinātņu fakultātes Starptautisko zinātnisko konferenču rakstu krājumi. | ||||||||
| 7 | Turvey, B.T. 2012. Criminal profiling: an introduction to behavioral evidence analysis. Amsterdam: Burlington, MA: Academic Press. | ||||||||
| 8 | Ривман, Д.В., Устинов, В.С. 2000. Виктимология. Сaнкт–Петербург: Питер. | ||||||||
| 9 | Криминология —XX век /Под ред. проф. В.Н.Бурлакова, проф. В.П.Сальникова. 2000. Санкт-Петербург: Издательство “Юридический центр Пресс”. | ||||||||
| 10 | Криминология. Учебник для вузов / под общей редакцией А. И. Долговой. 2005. Москва: Издательство НОРМА. | ||||||||
| 11 | Современная криминология: структура, методика и тенденции развития: учебное пособие / П.А. Кабанов. 2018. Н. Новгород: Нижегородская академия МВД России. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | Amerikas kriminologu asociācija | ||||||||
| 2 | Kriminoloģijas Interneta mega saits | ||||||||
| 3 | ASV kritiskās kriminoloģijas saits | ||||||||
| 4 | Skandināvijas Kriminoloģisko pētījumu padome | ||||||||
| 5 | Austrālijas kriminoloģisko pētījumu padome | ||||||||
| 6 | Kembridžas universitātes kriminoloģijas saits | ||||||||
| 7 | Kriminoloģisko teoriju saits | ||||||||
| 8 | Eiropas noziedzības novēršanas un kontroles institūts (HEUNI) | ||||||||
| 9 | Pasaules kriminālās tiesvedības elektroniskā bibliotēka | ||||||||
| 10 | Eiropols | ||||||||
| 11 | Interpols | ||||||||
| 12 | Teorētiskās kriminoloģijas saits | ||||||||
| 13 | Lielbritānijas kriminoloģijas padome | ||||||||
| 14 | Eiropas Kriminoloģijas padome | ||||||||
