Undergraduate
Faculty of Law
Faculty of Law
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Criminology

Course CodeSemester Course Name LE/RC/LA Course Type Language of Instruction ECTS
HUK0218 Criminology 2/0/0 DE Turkish 3
Course Goals
 Criminology, which studies crime, offender and the relationship between crime and offender in cause and effect relationship with regards to multiple factors, benefits from various disciplines which examine crime. The target of criminology course is to make students acquainted with criminals, the causes that drive a person to crime, the condition of social environment, personality and educational status of offender in terms of general, economical and cultural perspectives. 


Prerequisite(s) Students who may take courses from 3th, 5th and 7th semester may select the course.
Corequisite(s) None
Special Requisite(s) None
Instructor(s) Assist. Prof. Dr. Özdem Özaydın
Course Assistant(s)
Schedule Wednesday, 17.00-18.45, Online Education
Office Hour(s) Dr. Öğr. Üyesi iur. Özdem Özaydın: o.ozaydin@iku.edu.tr
Teaching Methods and Techniques -Lecture, discussion, presentation
Principle Sources -Sokullu-Akıncı, Kriminoloji, Beta Yayınları, 14. baskı, İstanbul 2019
    -Demirbaş, Timur, Kriminoloji, Seçkin Yayıncılık, 6. baskı, İstanbul 2016  
Other Sources -
Course Schedules
Week Contents Learning Methods
1. Week The definition, subject and importance of criminology Oral presentation
2. Week The scope of criminology: deviant behaviour and the relationship between criminology and other sciences. Oral presentation
3. Week Research methods in criminology Oral presentation
4. Week The method of measuring crime, reported criminals and indirect measures. Oral presentation
5. Week Experimental criminology and case study. Oral presentation
6. Week Life history, participant observation Oral presentation
7. Week Historical development of criminology: Classical school and the perspective of it. Oral presentation
8. Week The environment that created positivist school and early positivist studies. Oral presentation
9. Week Comte and the methodology of positivism. Oral presentation
10. Week Chicago School and its impacts. Oral presentation
11. Week Causes of crime in respect to today’s criminology Oral presentation
12. Week Crime theories: biological and psychological theories Oral presentation
13. Week Sociological and socio-psychological theories Oral presentation
14. Week Sociological and socio-psychological theories Oral presentation
15. Week Final Exams Week
16. Week Final Exams Week
17. Week
Assessments
Evaluation tools Quantity Weight(%)
Final Exam 1 100


Program Outcomes
PO-1Have the ability to reach and evaluate information sources;
PO-2Have the ability to use, compare, interpret, deduce from and apply scientific data;
PO-3Have historical knowledge enabling to interpret modern law achievements;
PO-4Have the ability to use Turkish efficiently verbally and in written;
PO-5Have the ability to follow up professional literature at least in a foreign language;
PO-6Have acquired professional and ethical sense of responsibility;
PO-7Have the ability to use vocational information technologies efficiently for solution of legal problems;
PO-8Have the ability to apply information acquired to solution of a concrete case;
PO-9Have full knowledge of legal rules which regulate relationship among natural legal persons and have the ability to interpret such rules;
PO-10Have full knowledge of legal rules which regulate relationship between individual and state and have the ability to interpret such rules;
PO-11Have the ability to practice the profession as a lawyer who adopts universal principles of law;
PO-12Have full knowledge of basic concepts and rules regarding structure and relationship manners of international community; have the ability to interpret and discuss about the foregoing;
PO-13Have basic knowledge enabling to evaluate international community’s common issues and their possible solutions;
PO-14Have knowledge enabling to apply to human rights bodies having a supranational judicial quality and to follow up the process;
PO-15Have knowledge on European Union Acquis Communautaire and operation of its institutions;
PO-16Have a world view enabling to question, criticize and develop law in direction with needs of humanity;
PO-17Have knowledge on historical development process of jurisprudence and judicial systems;
PO-18Have the ability to solve actual legal problems within the frame of contemporary legal approaches;
PO-19Be at the level of understanding and knowledge which reflects all qualities in the best way required by the profession on national and international scale;
PO-20Have full knowledge of legal arrangements and practices regarding economic and financial mechanisms;
PO-21Have knowledge on historical development of rights of individuals and societies and on basic texts adopted during the process;
PO-22Have the ability to express himself individually and before a group;
PO-23Have the ability to use, compare, interpret, deduce from and apply scientific data;
PO-24Have the ability to follow up regulations and legal quests in order to meet new needs appeared within the frame of relationships between individuals;
PO-25Have the ability to cooperate by implementing activities during courses, hypothetical law suits and judicial studies and other vocational and academic visits;
PO-26Have the ability to understand and handle national and international dimensions of law, jurisprudence and practices by means of follow up;
PO-27Have knowledge of international judicial bodies and their ways of operation.
Learning Outcomes
LO-1To learn the basic terms of criminology and the relationship between criminology and other disciplines.
LO-2To examine the relationship between crime and criminals by using various measures.
LO-3To understand the historical development of criminology.
LO-4To examine the relationship between crime and criminality and the causes of crime in the light of various theories.
LO-5To understand the impact of crime and types of crimes upon social change by examining quality and quantity of crime.
Course Assessment Matrix:
Program Outcomes - Learning Outcomes Matrix
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