KSET Syllabus Criminology

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KARNATAKA STATE ELIGIBILITY TEST (K-SET)
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Subject: CRIMINOLOGY Subject Code: 17

Syllabus
Unit - I

Crime as a Legal, Social and Psychological Construct; Deviance and Crime; Traditional Crimes:
Crimes against Property and Person (Children, Women, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender,
Queer (LGBTQ), Marginalized, Men). Victimless Crimes: Alcoholism, Drug Addiction,
Beggary, Commercial Sex, Suicide; Family centred Crimes: Dowry, Domestic Violence, Child
Abuse; Community Problems: Inter-religion and Intercaste tensions and conflicts. Modern
Crimes: Organized Crimes, Economic Crimes, Corruption, Corporate Crimes, Development
induced Crime, Environmental Crimes, Hate Crimes, Cyber Crimes and Cyber assisted Crimes.
Terrorism and Insurgency; Crime and Politics. Media, Technology and Crime. Transnational
Crimes

Unit – II

Criminology: Definition and Scope; Criminology and other Social Sciences; Criminology vs.
Criminal Justice. Structure of Criminal Justice System in India; Role of Legislature and Law
making; Coordination among Criminal Justice System. Participation of Victims and Witnesses in
the Criminal Justice Process. Crime Prevention: Neighbourhood Involvement, Situational Crime
Prevention, Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED), Electronic Monitoring.

Unit - III

Schools of Criminology: Demonology, Classical, Neo-Classical Schools, Positivist / Positive
School, Cartographic School, Biological and Constitutional School - Body Types, Hereditary
Traits, Endocrine Glands; Economic Theories of Crime; Multiple Factors. Psycho-Analytical
Theories and Psychopathic Personality. Social Strain Theories: Anomie theory, Culture conflict
and Sub culture theory. Social Ecology Theories: Concentric Zone theory, Environmental
Criminology, Social disorganization theory, Lower class culture theory. Social Learning
Theories: Theory of Imitation, Differential Association Theory, Differential Identification
theory, and Differential opportunity theory.

Unit - IV

Social Control Theories: Drift and Neutralization theory, Containment theory, Social bond
theory. Social Conflict Theories: Labelling Theory, Radical Criminology, Conflict Criminology,
Critical Criminology, Realist Criminology. Modern Theories: Routine Activities theory, Rational
Choice theory, Shaming theory, Broken windows theory, Feminist Criminology, Masculinity
theory, Life Course theory, Integrated theories, Space Transition theory. Contemporary
Perspectives: Cultural Criminology, News making Criminology, Peacemaking Criminology,
Green Criminology, Visual Criminology, Cyber Criminology, Positive Criminology,
Translational Criminology.

Unit - V

Legal Approaches: Accusatorial and Inquisitorial; Substantive and Procedural LawsCriminal
Liability, Strict Liability; Indian Penal Code-General Exceptions, Offences Against Property;
Criminal Procedure Code; Cognizable and Non-Cognizable offences, Bailable and Non-bailable,
Compoundable and Non-compoundable offences; Investigation of Crimes; Complaint, F. I. R.
Arrest, Search, Seizure, Police Custody, Judicial Remand and Bail; Types of Evidence,
Admissibility of Confession, Dying declaration. Human Rights: Fundamental rights, Rights of
accused and victims, Rights of persons in custody, Rights of prisoners. Supreme Court Landmark
Judgments on Criminal Justice Reforms, The Protection of Human Rights Act, Protection of
Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) Act - Salient features.

Unit - VI

Criminological Research: Importance and Types - Descriptive, Analytical, Experimental,
Exploratory and Doctrinal. Quantitative vs Qualitative research. Mixed Methods. Main Steps in
Criminological Research. Ethics and Confidentiality in Criminal Justice Research. Researcher
Fraud and Plagiarism. Crime and Criminal Justice Data. Statistical Applications in
Criminological Research.

Unit - VII

Penology – definition, nature and scope. Punishment-in ancient, medieval and modern times.
Punishment: Significance, Concept, Aims and Types. Theories of Punishment. Sentencing –
Principles, Policies and Procedures. Capital Punishment. Recent approaches to Punishment –
Restorative Justice, Restitution and Victim-offender Mediation. History and evolution of Prison
legislations – Prison Manuals and rules. Various Prison Reforms Committees and Commissions.
Standard Minimum Rules for Non-custodial Measures (Tokyo Rules) and Nelson Mandela Rules
for the Treatment of Prisoners.

Unit - VIII

Development of various prison systems - Penitentiary, Pennsylvania, Auburn system. Evolution
and development of Prison system in India. Institutional Treatment: Meaning and purpose.
Prison Types and Classification of Prisoners. Adult Institutions: Central, District and Sub Jails.
Women Institutions: Vigilance Home, Protective home. Open Prisons. Accommodation, food
and medical care in prisons. Correctional Programmes – Educational, work and prison
panchayats. Community based Corrections: Probation and Admonition: Concept and Scope,
Historical development of probation. Probation in India – Probation of offenders Act. Parole:
Meaning and Scope. After Care services in India. Current problems and challenges in
Correctional Administration.

Unit - IX

Juvenile and Youth Justice: Definition and Concept. Delinquency. Children in conflict with Law;
Children and Vulnerability. Truancy and Vagrancy. Youth Crimes. Main Features of latest
Juvenile Justice Act; Institutions: Juvenile Justice Board, Child Welfare Committee, Observation
Homes, Juvenile Homes, Special Homes, and ‘fit’ Institutions; Juvenile Aftercare Services.
Juvenile Police Unit. UN Documents: United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for Juvenile
Justice (Beijing Rules) and UN Riyadh Guidelines. Prevention of Delinquency.

Unit - X

Historical development of Victimology. Basic Concepts of Victimology. UN Declaration of
Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power, 1985. Victim – Offender
relationship. Impact of Victimization– Physical, Financial and Psychological (including Post-
Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), (Acute Stress Disorder (ASD), resilience, posttraumatic
growth, anger and the way victims are viewed) Impact. Primary, Secondary and Tertiary
Victimization. Role of NGOs in Victim Assistance. Criminological perspectives: Repeat
victimization, routine activities, lifestyle exposure, fear of crime, punitivity and victimization
surveys including cost of crime. Effects of crime on victims. Legal perspectives: Rights of the
Crime Victims as per Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) and other Laws- Victim Compensation
Schemes. Contemporary Developments in Victimology: Mass Victims and Mass Victimisation,
Clinical Victimology, Therapeutic Jurisprudence, Cyber Victimology, Positive Victimology.