Norms, deviance and criminal phenomena


Norms and deviance are two sides of the same coin: the relationship to the norm and to a desirable moral order. Studying deviance and its legalization is the common denominator of research that approaches deviance in a multidisciplinary manner.

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Legal aspects of crime

Once legalized, deviance becomes an offence, with its share of procedures, general principles and legal provisions.

Academics and definitive scientists

Adrien Masset
Vanessa Franssen
Olivier Michiels

Scientists

Marine Corhay
Géraldine Falque
Lorraine Grisard
Patrick Lambotte
Pierre Monville
Anne Werding

Socio-cognitive aspects of crime

What is the role of cognitive contents on the processes of acting out, moral disengagement or criminological dangerousness in different contexts of violence?

Academics and definitive scientists

Serge Garcet

Crime and business

Cybercrime, white-collar crime and financial fraud are analyzed from a legal and criminological point of view.

Academics and definitive scientists

Vanessa Franssen
Michaël Dantinne
Adrien Masset

Scientists

Géraldine Falque
Lorraine Grisard
Pierre Monville
Anne Werding

Youth and standards

What relationships to norms do young people develop? Norms, deviance and delinquency will be questioned with regard to the adolescent public in the broad sense.

Academics and definitive scientists

Cécile Mathys
Luc Bihain

Scientists

Marion Ballout
Julie Grégoire
Valentine Doffiny

Police - justice - prison

Study of the penal chain, its institutions and devices.

Academics and definitive scientists

Vincent Seron
Charlotte Vanneste

Scientists

Géraldine Falque
Yves Sevenants

Prostitution

A multidimensional approach to prostitution that crosses criminological, political and legal perspectives related to this social phenomenon by highlighting its historical, community and criminological issues.

Academics and definitive scientists

Michaël Dantinne
Sophie André

Radicalism

Study of the links that unite the phenomena of radicalism, violent radicalism, extremism, representations of Islam and conspiracy, in a perspective that is both critical and empirical.

Academics and definitive scientists

Michaël Dantinne
Serge Garcet

Victimology

Studies under the angle of an interpersonal criminology of the dynamics of perpetrators-victims, in particular in sexual and marital violence, and studies on the institutional contexts of care for victims.

Academics and definitive scientists

Serge Garcet

Scientists

Géraldine Falque

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