Cases on Technologies for Teaching Criminology and Victimology: Methodologies and Practices

Raffaella Sette (University of Bologna, Italy)

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Publication Status: E-Book and Print Version Available for Purchase

ISBN13: 9781605668727

EISBN13: 9781605668734

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-872-7

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As the explanation of crime and the social reaction to it depends on historical and cultural contexts, didactic methodologies are subject to continuous change in relation to theories and needs strictly linked to the profession.

Cases on Technologies for Teaching Criminology and Victimology: Methodologies and Practices presents state-of-the-art research and teaching into the study of corruption and those affected by it, containing chapters authored by researchers, academic professors, and experts from all over the world. With examinations into real-life situations, this unique publication analyzes the benefits and disadvantages of various teaching methodologies in universities, police academies, and crime victim services.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

Antropo-sociological approach to criminology
Applied criminology and forensic psychiatry
Case studies in adolescent safety
Cybercrime
GIS and the study of criminology and victimology
History of criminology and foreign nations
How to manage child abuse cases
P.e.N.T.A.C.R.I.M.E.
Teaching criminology
Trafficking and sexual exploitation

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Cases on Technologies for Teaching Criminology and Victimology: Methodologies and Practices studies how the interaction among the culture and the academic research and the specific professional training needs of criminology and victimology experts start a positive interaction that is able to show new solutions. The book develops through case studies that can observe, in a holistic and dynamic way, real teaching, training and research situations.

– Raffaella Sette, University of Bologna, Italy

Raffaella Sette, PhD in criminology, is senior researcher within the Department of Sociology of the University of Bologna (Italy) and she teaches “Criminal sociology” within the Faculty of Political Sciences and “Criminology” within the Faculty of Psychology. She is author of a large number of articles and essays concerning the sociology of the deviance, the criminology and the victimology. She is coordinator of the Editorial Board of the Criminology, Victimology and Security Journal, and since 2002, she is expert member of the Court of Surveillance of Bologna (Italy).

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