Crimonology (JF_340)
About Study Course
Objective
To provide students with an opportunity to acquire knowledge of crime as one of the social phenomena, its causes, basic indicators of crime, as well as to understand various forms and methods of crime prevention, including the ability to apply the acquired knowledge in practical police work.
Tasks:
1. Understand the role of criminology as part of social sciences and as a drive for crime prevention, including in the social system of Latvia.
2. Understand the causes of crime and the mechanism for committing criminal offences.
3. Learn the main causes of certain types of crime and prevention possibilities.
4. Learn the forms and methods to be used for crime prevention.
5. Be able to justify specific proposals for the prevention of crime on the basis of social, economic, legal and other aspects.
Prerequisites
It is necessary to complete the following study courses prior to this course: Theory of Law and Criminal Law.
Learning outcomes
Able to demonstrate comprehensive and specialised knowledge and understanding of the nature and role of criminology, its formation and development, the place in the criminal justice system; able to demonstrate comprehensive and specialised knowledge and understanding of the causes and factors contributing to crime; a mechanism for committing criminal offences; problems of victimology science; certain forms and types of crime and crime prevention problems.
Able to analyse, synthesize and evaluate the eligibility of issues for criminology; able to independently analyse and evaluate crime as a social phenomenon and a continuous process in the society; able to conduct studies of different types of crime using the acquired theoretical knowledge.
Able to understand and analyse the role of criminology as social science that has the leading role in combating crime, including in the social system of Latvia; able to identify and analyse the main causes of crime and the mechanism of committing criminal offences. Students will have mastered the main causes and possibilities for preventing certain types of crime; will have acquired forms and methods of work used in crime prevention; will have developed ability to argue specific proposals for the prevention of crime, based on social, economic, legal and other aspects. Able to describe and analyse practical problems.
