It was a case log. Fifty-three inmates. Handwritten observations scanned into digital form. Her father had tracked them for two decades after their release. Not their reoffense rates — their lives. Marriages, jobs, children, illnesses, moments of kindness, moments of relapse.
“Your father didn’t solve it,” Gjergj said quietly. kriminologji dhe penologji pdf
They ended up co-authoring a new course that spring — not criminology, not penology alone, but the space between them. And the first required reading? It was a case log
Next to each name, two columns: Criminological risk (his original assessment at incarceration) and Penological outcome (the actual sentence served). But a third column, added later in red ink, read: What actually helped. Her father had tracked them for two decades
The PDF was not a textbook.
“Read page 32,” she said.
For ten years, she had taught criminology at the University of Tirana — tracing the roots of criminal behavior, mapping recidivism curves, analyzing social fracture zones. Across the hall, Professor Gjergj Marku taught penology: the philosophy of punishment, prison reform, rehabilitation models, and the slow machinery of state retribution.