Cognitive Skills:
KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
After successfully mastering the seminar, students will be able to:
- Explain the concept of criminology and define its position in science and its relationship to other criminal sciences;
- Know the importance of criminology for a variety of sciencevarious sciences, particularly for criminal law;
- Identify key features of forms of behavior (criminological phenomenology);
- Group criminological theory;
- Recognize the basic quantitative and qualitative criminological methods;
- Critically evaluate and identify measures and strategies for combating criminal behavior;
- Understand and explain the latest empirical research findings ;
- Understand the basics of criminal law (general part - penalties and the special part of criminal law) including juvenile criminal law and the legal status of persons with mental disorders;
- Summarize all the knowledge acquired.
APPLICATION
After successfully mastering the seminar, students will be able to:
- Use basic criminological and criminal law concepts and terminology;
- Interpret the results of criminological research;
- Choose criminological methods applied;
- Apply the knowledge gained from the criminological phenomenology and etiology in practice;
- Use basic concepts of criminal law and regulations in practice.
ANALYSIS
After successfully mastering the seminar, students will be able to:
- Compare and analyze the dynamics and structure of crime at national and international level;
- Examine and categorize different criminological theories and victimization, and to link it with the various forms of criminal behavior;
- Set aside the most important crime and victims disposition, and endogenous and exogenous factors that contribute to criminal behaviour;
- Asses and understand the crime rate;
- Analyze the basic regulations and case law (in the segment of criminal law).
SYNTHESIS
After successfully mastering the seminar, students will be able to:
- Propose the necessary amendments to the penal policy and politics of punishment considering the individual manifestations of behavior and crime;
- To design the content and flow of criminological quantitative and qualitative research;
- Build a methodological system for making written works of criminology and criminal law;
- Devise a protocol of writing term papers;
EVALUATION
After successfully mastering the seminar, students will be able to:
- Evaluate the quality, sustainability and feasibility of measures and strategies for combating criminal behavior in practical terms and on the basis of empirical criminological and criminal normative knowledge;
- Choose further study of individual segments of criminology and criminal justice and to evaluate which is the most appropriate area for further sub-specialization;
- Examine and evaluate daily-professional, scientific and media debate on the prevalence, trends and crime situation in the context of science-based criminology and victimology.
Practical and Generic Skills:
After successfully mastering the seminar, students will be able to:
- To express themselves clearly and with arguments;
- To present to the public the learning outcomes;
- Improve communication skills;
- To present their arguments;
- Prepare a presentation;
- Carry out research;
- Be able to work with using particular computer systems for the analysis of survey data;
- Participate in team work and contribute to its performing.
Matching Assessments to Learning Outcomes:
1. Research seminars, the opportunity to participate in the criminological and victimological national and international research, accredited courses - Analysis
2. Development of written student papers (essays, term papers) and presentations to check the learning outcomes - synthesis and evaluation
3. Assessment takes place during the seminar, through the monitoring of students in research, evaluation of seminar papers or presentations. The criteria for evaluation are all learning outcomes - demonstrated knowledge and understanding of the subject matter of criminology and criminal law, the ability to apply criminological methods in practice, the ability of presentation, participation in research, the performance of the seminar work, the ability of analysis and synthesis, and evaluation of appropriate content adopted during the seminar.
