Course for international guest/part time students

Faculty

Faculty of Law

Organization

ÁJTK Department of Criminology

Code

JNX_ERASMUS:P04

Title

Criminology, Crime and Criminal Justice

Usual semester

Both

Published semester

2025/26/2

ECTS

5

Language

en

Learning outcomes

Course description The aim of this course is to introduce criminology as a separate discipline, and to introduce typical issues in the field of criminological theories, crime and reactions to crime. The lectures provide an in-depth overview of the characteristics of a given topic within the Hungarian and to a lesser extent European Union context.

Course content

Course schedule 18 February Introduction to Criminology (Réka Bálint, Assistant Lecturer) balint.reka@ajk.elte.hu 25 February Hate crimes in Hungary (Associate Prof. Petra Bárd) exceptionally synchronous online, not in person - bardp@ceu.edu 4 March White-collar Crime (Réka Bálint, Assistant Lecturer) 11 March Popculture and Criminology (Réka Bálint, Assistant Lecturer) 18 March Traditional and Transnational Organized Crime (Réka Bálint, Assistant Lecturer) 25 March Drug Problem and Drug Trafficking in the EU and Hungary (Réka Bálint, Assistant Lecturer) 8 April Trafficking in Human Beings (Réka Bálint, Assistant Lecturer) 15 April The characteristics of cyber-enabled crimes (Árpád Varga, Guest Lecturer) – arpadvarga92@gmail.com 22 April The Criminalization of Homelessness (Zsuzsanna Kunos, PhD student) – zsuzsikunos@gmail.com 29 April Critical Criminology and Environmental Harm: Perspectives in Green Criminology (Alida Szalai, PhD student) – szalai.alida@gmail.com 6 May Restorative justice (Associate Prof. Petra Bárd) - bardp@ceu.edu 12 May Preparation of the essay – no class

Assessment method

Assessment Written piece of at least 15,000 characters on academic level on a topic of the Course of the student’s choice and approved by the given lecturer and the Course coordinator. Course Coordinator: Assistant Lecturer Réka Bálint, Department of Criminology e-mail: balint.reka@ajk.elte.hu

Bibliography

Materials The slides of the lectures and the related e-learning documents and scientific articles. The learning materials will be uploaded to Moodle. https://moodle4.elte.hu

Programmes of the course