Penal Phenomenon And Formal Social Control

Students are expected to become familiar with the penal phenomenon and in particular a) with criminalization procedures and
conditions and b) with the establishment and operation of the crime control mechanism.
In this context, students will learn various approaches of deviant behavior as the starting point of the social process towards the
creation of formal rules, its relativity and its connection with the historical-social context where it appears and defined as such.
Consequently, they will be able to examine:
a) the connection between deviance and social control,
b) the determinants of the definition of a behavior as a crime (criminalization), and
c) the procedures, conditions and rules through which the social reaction to crime is shaped.
Moreover, students will be able to understand the procedures of rule-making and the institutionalization of rules in criminal laws and
to be aware of the theoretical approaches that interpret them. It is also expected that students will know how the crime control
mechanism was established in Greece and the basic principles governing criminal law and criminal procedure, developing critical social
thinking in the analysis of crime and social reaction.