Erciyes University - Info Package

Course unit title	Level of course unit	Course unit code	Type of course unit	Semester of course unit	Local credit	ECTS credit	Syllabus
CRIMINILOGY	Second cycle	SHK321		5	2.00	2.00	Print

Description of course unit

Prerequisites and course requisities	null
Language of instruction	Turkish
Coordinator	Assoc. Prof. Fatih BIRTEK
Lecturer(s)	Assoc. Prof. Fatih BIRTEK
Teaching assitant(s)	null
Mode of delivery	Verbal and theoric lecture
Course objective	The aim is to try to explain the question “Why does a person commit a crime?” With the criminology theories that have emerged in the historical process.
Course description	Criminology literally means criminal science. Criminology, which is the field of crime and criminals. This discipline that examines the crime phenomenon in the light of the theoretical approaches corresponding to the question of why people commit crime.

Course contents

1	Criminology and Relations with other Sciences
2	Subject of Criminology, Definition of Criminology, and Field of Criminology
3	The Common Aspect Points of Criminology with other Sciences
4	The Importance of Criminology
5	The interest of people in the causes of crime and criminals
6	Research Methods and Crime Statistics in Criminology
7	Review before to the exam.
8	Historical Development of Criminology
9	Classical School
10	Positivist School
11	Chicago School
12	Crime Theories
13	Biological Theory and Psychological Theories
14	Sociological Theories
15	Control Theory and Learning Theories
16	The Future of Criminology and Crime Theory in Turkey and in the World
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Learning outcomes of the course unit

1	The student will learn the historical development of crime and criminality and the history of criminology.
2	The student will be able to reason more scientifically about the causes of crime.
3	The student will learn crime theories.
4	The student will be able to have an idea about the current criminal status with the knowledge he gained from crime theories.
5	Students will have information about national crime statistics
6	The student will read the crime statistics more accurately.
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Number of stars refer to level of contribution from 1 (the least) to 5 (the most)

Planned learning activities, teaching methods and ECTS work load

	Quantity	Time (hour)	Quantity*Time (hour)
Lectures (face to face teaching)	16	2	32
Study hours out of classroom (study before and after the class)	10	1	10
Homework	0	0	0
Presentation / seminar	0	0	0
Quiz	0	0	0
Preparation for midterm exams	0	0	0
Midterm exams	1	5	5
Project (term paper)	0	0	0
Laboratuar	0	0	0
Field study	0	0	0
Preparation for final exam	1	5	5
Final exam	1	2	2
Research	0	0	0
Total work load			54
ECTS			2.00

Assessment methods and criteria

Evaluation during semester	Quantity	Percentage
Midterm exam	1	40
Quiz	0	0
Homework	0	0
Semester total		40
Contribution ratio of evaluation during semester to success		40
Contribution ratio of final exam to success		60
General total		100

Recommended and required reading

Textbook	Criminology (Icli, Tulin Günsen) Criminology, Akinci, Fusun Sokullu
Additional references	Other text books and articles.

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