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ECONOMICS AND FINANCE
Bachelor TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 QF-EHEA: First Cycle EQF-LLL: Level 6

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code Course Name Semester Theoretical Practical Credit ECTS
LAW2033 Criminology Fall 0 2 1 4
This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester.

Basic information

Language of instruction: English
Type of course: Non-Departmental Elective
Course Level: Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery: Face to face
Course Coordinator : Dr. Öğr. Üyesi MEHMET SİNAN ALTUNÇ
Course Lecturer(s): Dr. Öğr. Üyesi MEHMET SİNAN ALTUNÇ
Recommended Optional Program Components: None
Course Objectives: Giving information on the subjects of crime and criminal, studying the reasons of the causes of the crime and the methods of the struggling with the criminality, studying the subjects of the offender and the victim.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
Have the knowledge on the causes of the crime.
Have the knowledge on the instruments used for struggling with the criminality.
Evaluate the criminality in the light of the science of criminology.
Can make criminological evaluations about different types of criminalities.

Course Content

Crime and Criminology
Method for studying crime and criminality
History of the criminology
Offender and victim
Control
Types of criminality

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week Subject Related Preparation
1) Introduction Method in criminology
2) Crime and criminology
3) Historical development of criminology
4) Historical development of criminology
5) Schools in criminology
6) Criminal/delinquent
7) Victim
8) Control Concept of social control
9) Sexual crimes
10) Organized crimes
11) Terrorism
12) Drug related crimes
13) Environmental crimes
14) Review

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks: Timur Demirbaş, Kriminoloji
Sulhi Dönmezer, Kriminoloji
References: Füsun Sokullu Akıncı, Kriminoloji
Öztekin Tosun Suçluların Gözlemi
Raymond Gassin, Criminologie
Maurice Cusson, La criminologie
Christian Debuyst / Françoise Digneffe / Alvaro P. Pires, Histoire des savoirs sur le crime et la peine

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements Number of Activities Level of Contribution
Midterms 1 % 30
Final 1 % 70
Total % 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK % 30
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK % 70
Total % 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities Number of Activities Duration (Hours) Workload
Course Hours 16 2 32
Midterms 1 20 20
Final 1 40 40
Total Workload 92

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

No Effect 1 Lowest 2 Low 3 Average 4 High 5 Highest
           
Program Outcomes Level of Contribution
1) Build up a body of knowledge in mathematics and statistics, to use them, to understand how the mechanism of economy –both at micro and macro levels – works. 3
2) Understand the common as well as distinctive characters of the markets, industries, market regulations and policies. 2
3) Develop an awareness of different approaches to the economic events and why and how those approaches have been formed through the Economic History and understand the differences among those approaches by noticing at what extent they could explain the economic events. 1
4) Analyze the interventions of politics to the economics and vice versa. 3
5) Apply the economic analysis to everyday economic problems and evaluate the policy proposals for those problems by comparing opposite approaches. 2
6) Understand current and new economic events and how the new approaches to the economics are formed and evaluating. 2
7) Develop the communicative skills in order to explain the specific economic issues/events written, spoken and graphical form. 3
8) Know how to formulate the economics problems and issues and define the solutions in a well-formed written form, which includes the hypothesis, literature, methodology and results / empirical evidence. 2
9) Demonstrate the quantitative and qualitative capabilities and provide evidence for the hypotheses and economic arguments. 2
10) Understand the information and changes related to the economy by using a foreign language and communicate with colleagues. 3