Greek And International Penitentiary Policy

The course is one of the options available for students to attend some 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 know:
– the historical process through which the means and methods of penal repression have been formed,
– the diverse theoretical foundations and orientations affecting national and international penitentiary policies, with emphasis on
European penological discourses and realities, – custodial penitentiary institutions and community sanctions and measures, trends and problematic aspects of penal repression and the critical approaches questioning this specific field of formal social control.
Based on this knowledge, students will be able to participate, as researchers and practitioners, in drafting and evaluating penitentiary
policy programmes, in developing custodial and community treatment interventions for remanded and convicted persons and in
implementing respective measures.