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

ASISTANT PROFESSOR SESIM SOYER GÜLEÇ

Offered to

Vocational School of Justice

Course Objective

Analysing the causes of crimes, emergence of crimes, relations between social development and guiltiness, crimes' committer, groups of committer, victims of crimes and prevention of crimes.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Criminals should take place in society again.
2   Somebody can analyse sociological and psychological causes of crimes.
3   Somebody can explain prisons' effects on criminals.
4   Somebody can comprehend criterions on categorizing of criminals.
5   Somebody can explain the aim of the crime prevention, taking place again in the society of criminals.

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
3 Research Methods (I)
4 Research Methods (II)
5 Theories explaining the grounds of the crime and historical backround
6 Biological theories
7 Psychological theories
8 Sociological theories
9 The introduction to the crime fhenology
10 Age and the criminality
11 Sex and the criminality
12 Marital status and the criminality
13 Region, culture, morals and the criminality
14 Midterm

Recomended or Required Reading

Demirbaş, Timur; Kriminoloji, Ankara 2006

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures and proffessional trips

Assessment Methods

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


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 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for midterm exam 1 25 25
Preparation for final exam 1 30 30
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