Social Pathologies 380-ERA-7GUD
Ćwiczenia (CW) Rok akademicki 2022/23

Helander, E.A. (2008) Children and Violence The World of the Defenceless,New York: Palgrave Macmillan

• Rapp-Paglicci L.A., Roberts A.R., Wodarski J.S. (2002) Handbook of Violence, New York: Wiley&Sons

• Piotrowski P (ed) (2006) Understanding Social Pathology, AMsterdam-ew York: Rodopi

• Lupton R. (2003) Poverty Street. The dynamics of neighbourhood decline and renewal, Bristol: Polity Press

• Meyer G., Hayer T., Griffiths M. (eds.) (2009), Problem Gambling in Europe. Challenges, Prevention, and Interventions. New York: Springer

• Conoley J.C., Goldstein A.P. (2004) School Violence Intervention, New York - London: The Guilford Press

• Laws D.R., O'Donohue W.T.(eds) (2008) Sexual Deviance: Theory, Assessment, and Treatment. New York - London: The Guilford Press

• Sumner C. (2004) The Blackwell Companion to Criminology, Oxford: Blackwell

Williams M., (2006) Virtually Criminal. Crime, deviance and regulation online, London - New York: Routledge

The aim of the course is enhance students' knowledge in the range of individual/group/social system abnormal forms of activity, especially:

• getting knowledge about theoretical background for defining social pathologies

• getting students' knowledge about pathologies related to the identification, etiology, symptomatology and prevention activities from different perspectives (individual, social groups and the wider community)

Evaluation of the student's work will be the result of:

a) Continuous assessment (activity during the course and the outcome of all tests / activity and the Edmodo educational platform) (40%)

b) own work - the characteristics of the selected deviant / pathological issue (indicated in the detailed description) in a personally chosen form. (40%)

c) group work on chosen theoretical background (20%)

The work during this course is linked with these topics:

norms vs deviations

How pathologies are defined

How social pathologies are clasified

Theoretical background of social pathologies

Prevention strategies in social pathologies

Teaching methods:

classes,

distance learning (Edmodo platform)