The History of Penal Cultures

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Course ID:	3401-RL13DKP
Erasmus code / ISCED:	10.4 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0421) Law The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title:	The History of Penal Cultures
Name in Polish:	Dzieje kultur penalnych
Organizational unit:	Institute of Social Prevention and Resocialisation
Course groups:
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	Polish
Type of course:	obligatory courses
Prerequisites (description):	basic competences in social sciences and in penal sciences, especially in relation to the question of social prevention and resocialization
Mode:	Classroom
Short description:	In the framwork of the subject student is to get basic knowledge about the methods and concepts applied in the process of analysis of criminal justice system in the field of sociology, anthropology, history and penologyiquestions of the genesis and evolution of punishment, and the historical changes in the criminal justice systems.
Full description:	In the framwork of the subject student is to get basic knowledge about the methods and concepts applied in the process of analysis of criminal justice system in the field of sociology, anthropology, history of criminal law and penology. In the lecture examples will be emphasized related to the history, especially to the ancient history and related to the anthropological analysis of the conditions of development of European penal cultures. To illustrate certain special problems and social and cultural mechanisms also examples related to the penal institutions from other past and contemporary penal cultures will be examined, with special attention to the chances and problems of multiculturalism. Historical and anthropological analysis will be commented in relation to the different sociological theories of conflict. The lecture will focus also on the analysis of socio-cultural conditions of the use of social patterns related to the ancient tradition amd symbolic of Bible in the context of shaping modern Western (European) penal systems from the second half of XVIII century to the contemporary times. In this anaysis the possible interrelations between the development of modern penal doctrines, and theories, the criminal law based on knowledge , cultural heritage and symbolism of punishment and the needs of new capitalist economy and new State order based on the rule of law, biurocracy and democratic principles will be discussed.
Bibliography:	General literatureJ. Utrat-Milecki, Podstawy penologii. Teoria kary, Warszawa, Wyd. UW 2006, Roz. II, III, IV i VI; J. Utrat-Milecki, Kara. Teoria i kultura penalna: perspektywa integralnokulturowa, Warszawa, Wyd. UW 2010, część II; Kara w nauce i kulturze, ed. J. Utrat-Milecki, Warsaw,Wyd. UW 2009.Dziadzio A. Malec D. Historia prawa. Prawo karne w świetle źródeł, Kraków 2000; J. Warylewski, Kara: podstawy filozoficzne i historyczne, Gdański, UG 2007; Mary Douglas, Czystość i zmaza, Warszawa 2007 Literature for the classes and for the written exam will be provided each academic year at the first meetings by the persons responsible for the history, sociology and social anthropology.
Learning outcomes:	Student shall be able to use knowledge of sociology, history, social anthropology and legal studies to multidimensional (culturally integrated) analyses of the criminal justice systems in the diachronic and synchronic way. Especially the student shall have the basic knowledge which helps to identify socio-cultural factors which may today inluence the process of enacting and implementing the legal ruiles of penal law and also determinating their effectveness and conformity to the axiological system of State (Constitution) and society. As a result of the course, students should acquire knowledge about the relationship between punishment and other spheres of symbolic culture associated primarily with creating and maintaining perceptions regarding the social order, preventing the disorder and finding compromises between conflicting attitudes tolerated each other socially Moreover students will have a knowledge and comptetences for analyses of criminal law provisions, contemporarty and historical, the competences in respect of methodologically correct analysis of historical documents concerning punishment, including also documents of Ancient Civilisations, and the knowledge concerning the reality of criminal justice system in the history, i.a by the analyses of different types of criminal process.
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	Classes: student's activities, permanent evaluation, student, may, for instance, present a paper. Moreover, to get credit for the classes and for exam it is necessary to pass a written exam. The written exam is indispensable to get credit for classes and the appriopriate number of points is also enough to pass the exam with the minimum grade. To get a better grade at the exam it is necessary to pass well the oral exam following the written test.

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