COURSE UNIT TITLE

: INFORMATION ON CRIMINOLOGY

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
AMY 1033 INFORMATION ON CRIMINOLOGY ELECTIVE 2 0 0 5

Offered By

Vocational School of Justice

Level of Course Unit

Short Cycle Programmes (Associate's Degree)

Course Coordinator

DOCTOR ISA BAŞBÜYÜK

Offered to

Vocational School of Justice

Course Objective

Analysing the causes of crimes in biological, sociological and psychological aspects, perpetrator-victim and crime relations, theories about reasons of crimes and various factors relation with the term of crime.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To learn biological, sociological and psychological reasons of crime.
2   To know basics of criminal research methods.
3   To acquire knowledge about theories on reasons of crimes.
4   To learn various factors relation with the consept of crime in term of criminal phenology.
5   To analyse negative impacts of prisons and the importance of former prisoners taking place in the society.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The term criminology, and the relationship with other sciences
2 History of criminology
3 Introduction to research methods of criminology
4 Assestment of research methods of criminology
5 Theories explaining the grounds of the crime
6 Biological theories
7 Psychological theories
8 Sociological theories
9 The relation between crime, criminality and various terms, introduction to the criminal phenology
10 Age, gender, civil status and criminality
11 Education, culture and criminality
12 Alcohol and drug addiction and criminality-mass communication and criminality
13 Midterm
14 Midterm

Recomended or Required Reading

Dönmezer Sulhi, Kriminoloji 1994.
Demirbaş Timur, Kriminoloji 2016.
Sokullu-Akıncı Füsun, Kriminoloji, 2016.
Polat Oğuz, Kriminoloji ve Kriminalistik Üzerine Notlar, 2015.
Dolu Osman, Suç Teorileri, 2015.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures and discussions

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE roundKPU + FN,0
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) roundKPU + BUT,0


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

http://amyo.deu.edu.tr/esaslar.html

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

sesim.soyer@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Lecture days

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 2 24
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 2 24
Preparation for final exam 1 72 72
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 123

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10
LO.11
LO.211
LO.3
LO.41
LO.5