Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)
Study Course Description
Criminology
Course Code
JF_081
Branch of Science
Criminal Rights; Law
ECTS
3.00
Target Audience
Juridical Science
LQF
Level 6
Study Type And Form
Full-Time; Part-Time
Study Course Implementer
Course Supervisor
Aldona Kipāne
Structure Unit Manager
Ieva Puzo
Structural Unit
Faculty of Social Sciences
Contacts
Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf@rsu.lv
About Study Course
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.
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.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge
1.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
1.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.
Competences
1.Students are able to obtain, select and analyse information and use it independently. Students are able to make decisions and solve criminological problems.
Assessment
Individual work
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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.
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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.
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Study Course Theme Plan
FULL-TIME
Part 1
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Lecture
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Auditorium
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Subject and concept of criminology. Structure and system of criminology. Tasks and functions of criminology.
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.
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Subject and concept of criminology. Structure and system of criminology. Tasks and functions of criminology.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Juvenile delinquency.
Economic crime.
Female crime.
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Juvenile delinquency.
Economic crime.
Female crime.
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Organised crime.
Terrorism.
Cybercrime.
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Organised crime.
Terrorism.
Cybercrime.
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Organised crime.
Terrorism.
Cybercrime.
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Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
3.00
Contact hours:
32 Academic Hours
Final Examination:
Exam (Written)
PART-TIME
Part 1
Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
3.00
Contact hours:
10 Academic Hours
Final Examination:
Exam (Written)
Bibliography
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.
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Siegel, L.J. 2013. Criminolgy: Theories, Patterns and Typologies. Blemont: Cengage Learning.
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Criminology / C. Hale, K. Hayward, A. Wahidin, E. Wincup. 2013. 3rd edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Williams, K.S. 2012. Textbook on Criminology. 7th edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press
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Burke, H.R. 2009. An Introduction to Criminological Theory. 3rd edition. Willan Publishing.
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Maguire, M., Morgan, R., Reiner, R. 1997. The Oxford Handbook of Criminology. New York: University Press, Inc.
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Zīle, J. 2002. Cietušais krimināltiesisko zinātņu skatījumā. Rīga: Latvijas Vēstnesis.
13.
Seps, Dz. 1995. Nepilngadīgo likumpārkāpumu kriminoloģiskās problēmas. Rīga: Latvijas Policijas akadēmija.
14.
Stumbiņa, Ē., Birkavs, V., Niedre, A. 1981. Kriminoloģija. Rīga: Zvaigzne.
15.
Kristapsone, S. 2003. Noziedzība Latvijā (noziedzību noteicošie sociāli ekonomiskie faktori Latvijā 90. gados). Rīga: Raka.
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Vilks, A. 2008. Narkokriminoloģija. Rīga: Drukātava.
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Krimināllikums. Latvijas Republikas likums ar grozījumiem, Pieņemts Latvijas Republikas Saeimā 17.06.1998., stājies spēkā 01.04.1999.
Additional Reading
1.
Žurnāls Jurista vārds
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Žurnāls Administratīvā un Kriminālā Justīcija
3.
Iekšlietu ministrijas Informācijas centra mājas lapa
4.
Valsts policijas mājas lapa
5.
Latvijas tiesu portāls
6.
Turvey, B.T. 2012. Criminal profiling: an introduction to behavioral evidence analysis. Amsterdam: Burlington, MA: Academic Press.
7.
Ривман, Д.В., Устинов, В.С. 2000. Виктимология. Сaнкт–Петербург: Питер.
8.
Криминология —XX век /Под ред. проф. В.Н.Бурлакова, проф. В.П.Сальникова. 2000. Санкт-Петербург: Издательство “Юридический центр Пресс”.
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Криминология. Учебник для вузов / под общей редакцией А. И. Долговой. 2005. Москва: Издательство НОРМА.
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SOKRATES Rīgas Stradiņa universitātes Juridiskās fakultātes elektroniskais juridisko zinātnisko rakstu žurnāls
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Современная криминология: структура, методика и тенденции развития: учебное пособие / П.А. Кабанов. 2018. Н. Новгород: Нижегородская академия МВД России.
12.
Osipova, S. 2010. Ievads tiesību socioloģijā. Rīga: Tiesu namu aģentūra.
13.
Judins, A. Recidīva rādītāji, to noteikšanas kārtība un piemērošana Valsts probācijas dienesta un Ieslodzījumu vietu pārvaldes darbā. Rīga: Valsts probācijas dienests.
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Drošība un tiesiskums Latvijā. Zinātnisko rakstu krājums. 2007. Latvijas Universitātes Filozofijas un socioloģijas institūts. Rīga.
15.
Vilks, A. 2001. Deviantoloģija. Mācība par uzvedības sociālajām novirzēm. Rīga: Tiesu namu aģentūra.
16.
Vilks, A. Noziedzīgos nodarījumos cietušo kriminoloģiskās problēmas // Jurista vārds 2008.gads 4.novembris, Nr. 42 (547)
17.
Ugrjumovs, A. 1922. Noziedzības cēloņi un apkarošanas līdzekļi. Rīga: Tieslietu ministrijas vēstnesis, Nr.6.
18.
Birkavs, V. 1986. Zinātne – pret noziedzību. Rīga.
19.
Klarks, R.V., Eks, Dž.E. Noziedzības analīze 60 soļos. Problēmorientēta policijas darba centrs.
Other Information Sources
1.
Amerikas kriminologu asociācija
2.
Kriminoloģijas Interneta mega saits
3.
ASV kritiskās kriminoloģijas saits
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Skandināvijas Kriminoloģisko pētījumu padome
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Austrālijas kriminoloģisko pētījumu padome
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Kembridžas universitātes kriminoloģijas saits
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Kriminoloģisko teoriju saits
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Eiropas noziedzības novēršanas un kontroles institūts (HEUNI)
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Pasaules kriminālās tiesvedības elektroniskā bibliotēka
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Eiropols
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Interpols
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Teorētiskās kriminoloģijas saits
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Lielbritānijas kriminoloģijas padome
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Eiropas Kriminoloģijas padome
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Daugavpils Universitātes Sociālo zinātņu fakultātes Starptautisko zinātnisko konferenču rakstu krājumi.