Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza

Sociologia giuridico-penale (Sociology of Criminal Law)

Prof. José Garcia Añon

Anno accademico 2014/2015

Sommario insegnamento

• Obiettivi formativi
• Risultati dell'apprendimento attesi
• Modalità di insegnamento
• Modalità di verifica dell'apprendimento
• Programma
• Testi consigliati e bibliografia
• Note
• Strumenti didattici

Obiettivi formativi

The course will address some main current problems of Sociology of Criminal Law and Legal Philosophy, providing tools to study Law and to work with the “Law in action” promoting access to justice and human rights, in particular for "disadvantaged people" in our society (Ethnic minorities, Prisoners, migrants etc.).

Risultati dell'apprendimento attesi

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Modalità di verifica dell'apprendimento

Programma

1.“Law in action”: clinical legal education, access to justice and human rights

 1.1. Teaching and doing research from sociology of law perspective

1.2. What is Clinical Legal Education?

- The origins of Clinical Legal Education

- Why Clinical Legal Education? (Experiential learning: how do we teach? How do we learn?)

- CLE and Social Justice

- Organization, development and operation of Legal Clinics

1.3. Access to justice and human rights: alternative means of access to justice, global responses to human rights violations (with a particular focus on prisoner’s rights and migrants’ rights)

1.4. Legal Ethics and Professionalism

 2. Procedural justice Theory: Trust in justice, compliance and legitimacy of institutions with criminal law

- Ethnic profiling: experiences and attitudes related to police behaviour

 3. Developing a legal clinic project

- Foreigner detention centres

- Prisons

- Ethnic profiling           

- Quality of Life norms

In the first part, the course will take a socio-legal (and critical) approach to the legal phenomenon through clinical legal education, teaching law students practical legal skills in a social justice setting. Social justice refers to the fair distribution of health, housing, welfare, education and legal resources in society. Clinical legal education programmes provide legal advice and remedies to disadvantaged persons.

 In the second part, instead of focusing in the negative aspects of criminalization processes, using the framework of a procedural justice theory we’ll approach to a methodology to research police behaviour legitimacy. We’ll distinguish between normative (or objective) legitimacy and empirical (or subjective) legitimacy. To say that the police are legitimated, for example, is to say that people feel a positive duty to obey the instructions of police officers, feel aligned with the moral values of the police as an institution, and believe that it acts according to the rule of law. These concepts are connected with others as disproportion, efficiency, trust and cooperation with institutions. We’ll work with data used in the European Social Survey (ESS) and a report on ethnic profiling in Spain about experiences and attitudes related to police behaviour.

In the third part of the course, we’ll develop a legal clinic project related to those areas in which rights are restricted, in particular on the case of immigrants detainees in prisons or detention centres. However, other aspects can be explored. For example, the quality of life’ style norms or provisions, promulgated at municipal level, restricting the enjoyment of rights in the name of safety (e.g. “broken windows policies”).

During the class sessions we will develop dynamics of active learning, using problem based learning methods, that will promote the acquisition of competences, abilities and skills and students will be aware of social problems, introducing them to the  “law in context”.

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Note

Tabella degli orari

Orario lezioni:

martedì e mercoledì ore 10 - 12 in aula H3 (a partire dal 24 febbraio 2015)

• Materiale didattico
• Bacheca appelli
• Vai a Moodle
• Visita i forum