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Curr. 2021 § 5 (1) 15: This module serves to gain in-depth knowledge in selected subject areas of sociology. The students specialise in one or more subject(s) and acquire in-depth knowledge in them. 

The term 'security society' is used in the context of criminological diagnoses of society to describe current societal transformations of social control: a change in criminal policy from a welfare-state model of punishment to a model of risk management; the shift of control to the realm of prevention; the pluralisation of responsibility in the production of security; the reversal of the burden of proof through preventive control; a new punitiveness in society, etc. 

Lecture and seminar part; independent literature study; group work and presentations;

Written examination on the lecture contents; short written papers in the seminar part; "conference panels" of the working groups.

Bogner, A. (2018): Gesellschaftsdiagnosen. 3. Aufl. Kap. 6: Sicherheitsgesellschaft. S. 99-114. Beltz-Juventa Verlag. Weinheim und Basel.

Garland, D. (2008/orig.2001): Kultur der Kontrolle. Verbrechensbekämpfung und soziale Ordnung in der Gegenwart. Campus. Frankfurt/Main.

Singelnstein, T. und Stolle, P. (2012): Die Sicherheitsgesellschaft. Soziale Kontrolle im 21. Jahrhundert. 3. Auflage. VS Verlag. Wiesbaden.

More literature will be announced during the course.

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