Criminology

The course is the basis for students to attend other criminological sciences lessons taught in the Department and to examine issues of
crime and its control, connecting them with the subject of these courses, namely “Criminology”, “Crime Policy and Globalization”,
“International and Greek Penitentiary Policy”, “Penal Phenomenon and Formal Social Control”, “Security and Human Rights”, “Youth,
Crime and Penal Repression”,”Victimology and Restorative Justice”, “Special Issues of Criminal Justice and Crime Policy”. Through the
teaching of these subjects, students acquire the necessary basic knowledge on theoretical and applied criminology, including a wide
range of measures introduced and implemented to prevent and control crime. Moreover, students are prepared for a more systematic
engagement with criminological sciences later on, at postgraduate level.
Students are expected:
• to identify the multidimensional factors that transform the crime phenomenon in the context of specific historical conditions,
• to obtain the basic knowledge so that they can understand the differences among different approaches to crime, and
• to develop skills of comparative and critical analysis of the problems associated with the crime phenomenon.