Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University Course Catalogue

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FACULTY OF LETTERS & SCIENCE / SOS 208 - SOCIOLOGY

Code: SOS 208 Course Title: CRIMINAL SOCIOLOGY Theoretical+Practice: 3+0 ECTS: 3
Year/Semester of Study 2 / Spring Semester
Level of Course 1st Cycle Degree Programme
Type of Course Optional
Department SOCIOLOGY
Pre-requisities and Co-requisites None
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Teaching Period 14 Weeks
Name of Lecturer NİHAN OZANSOY TUNÇDEMİR (nihanozansoy@nevsehir.edu.tr)
Name of Lecturer(s)
Language of Instruction Turkish
Work Placement(s) None
Objectives of the Course
The aim of this course is to provide a sociological analysis framework about criminal cases.

Learning Outcomes PO MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1 Can define the basic concepts of criminal sociology programs. PO-1 1. Can understand the basic concepts regarding the sociology programs.
PO-2 2.Can transfer and adapt what they have acquired in the field of Sociology to other disciplines.
Examination
LO-2 Can define modern and postmodern crime teories. PO-4 4. Can have the skills to define, model and solve the sociological problems in the field of Sociology and related fields.
PO-6 6. Can assess and evaluate the data making use of the advanced knowledge and skills that they have acquired in the field, to define and analyze the issues connected with current technological developments finding ways to offer solutions to those issues based on the researched and evidence.
Examination
LO-3 Can distinquish sociological quality of crime. PO-4 4. Can have the skills to define, model and solve the sociological problems in the field of Sociology and related fields.
Examination
PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
This course aims to make a sociological analysis of crime. In this context, social factors that give rise to / affect crimes such as the social environment, education, culture, age, gender, class, unemployment and social factors will be discussed. The concept of the sociology of crime will be analyzed by utilizing the methods of theoretical and empirical sociology.
Weekly Course Content
Week Subject Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 Crimes and types of crimes Oral lectures, discussion
2 Classical and modern period, the basic theoretical approaches developed in relation to crime Oral lectures, discussion
3 Crime and demographic variables: age, gender, education Oral lectures, discussion
4 Relationship between poverty and crime; Oral lectures, discussion
5 Female delinquency, child delinquency Oral lectures, discussion
6 The distribution and diversity of a crime in Turkey Oral lectures, discussion
7 New forms of crime-A Oral lectures, discussion
8 mid-term exam
9 New forms of crime-B Oral lectures, discussion
10 Modern and postmodern crime teories Oral lectures, discussion
11 Irving Goffman and 'stamp' and 'total institutions' concepts Oral lectures, discussion
12 Howard Becker and 'tagging' concept Oral lectures, discussion
13 David Matza and 'drift' concept Oral lectures, discussion
14 Jack Katz and crime scratch concept Oral lectures, discussion
15 Michel Foucault, and surveillance concept Oral lectures, discussion
16 final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
1 Schrirach, Ferdinand Von, (2012), Suç, NTV Yayınları, İstanbul.
2 Abonoz, İsmet Nezih, (2012), Ekonomik Kriz, Kapitalizm ve Suç, Legal Yayıncılık, İstanbul.
Required Course instruments and materials
1)Becker, Howard. (1963). Outsiders, New York: Macmillan Publishing. 2)Foucault, Michel. (2000). Hapishanenin Do?u?u, Ankara: ?mge Yay?nlar?. 3)Goffman, Irving. (1961). Asylums, New York: Doubleday and Company Inc. 4)Henry, Stuart ve Dragan Milavonavic. (1996). Constitutive Criminology, Londra: Sage Publications. 5)Kollektif (Aral?k 2008), Toplumbilim: Kent ve Suç .özel Say?s?, Say?:23, ?stanbul.

Assessment Methods
Type of Assessment Week Hours Weight(%)
mid-term exam 8 1 40
Other assessment methods
1.Oral Examination
2.Quiz
3.Laboratory exam
4.Presentation
5.Report
6.Workshop
7.Performance Project
8.Term Paper
9.Project
final exam 16 1 60

Student Work Load
Type of Work Weekly Hours Number of Weeks Work Load
Weekly Course Hours (Theoretical+Practice) 3 14 42
Outside Class
       a) Reading 1 14 14
       b) Search in internet/Library 1 14 14
       c) Performance Project 0
       d) Prepare a workshop/Presentation/Report 1 1 1
       e) Term paper/Project 0
Oral Examination 0
Quiz 0
Laboratory exam 0
Own study for mid-term exam 3 3 9
mid-term exam 1 1 1
Own study for final exam 3 4 12
final exam 1 1 1
0
0
Total work load; 94