C106 - ECTS

The program aims to introduce i) the concepts of “deviance”, “normal and pathological” and the sciences of deviant behaviour; ii) the application of biological and psychological knowledge to the understanding of deviant/delinquent behaviour.

C104 - ECTS

General understanding of Criminal Law and doctrine of crime

C101 - ECTS

The main purpose of this course is to introduce to the structure, systems and function of the criminological thinking. In that sense, the course aims to:

- Develop a first interdisciplinary and integrated perspective of the criminological field (epistemological, theoretical and methodological levels).

- Provide an overview of the fundamental and applied contemporary criminology.

- Identify the main principles of theoretical paradigms and their implications to criminological research

- Provide an understanding of the process of scientific research and methodological thinking

- Provide an overview of the relation between criminology and criminal justice system

- Identify major questions in the criminological interventions -Develop the skills required to research and systematize information relevant to criminology.

C103 - ECTS

The aim of this discipline is to provide the students with the basic frameworks of the legal system. It is meant to see Law as a body in motion and not an estatic one, so it is given major relevance to the methodological issues.

C109 - ECTS

The Curricular Unit aims at providing an introduction to the formal thinking applied to social themes and problems, especially those related with crime and criminal justice. It is centered in the knowledge and the application of quantitative methods in criminal justice topics. It further aims at allowing students to aquire abilities to read and understand quantitative scientifical research produced in Criminology.

C107 - ECTS

This course aims to provide: - An overview of the main sociological perspectives. - An understanding of the main sociological approaches of deviance and societal reaction.

 

C102 - ECTS

- To acquire the fundamental knowledge about Crime and Justice produced in the last 20 years by a new research area in Criminology, designated from 1999, as “Experimental Criminology”.

-To acquire knowledge about experimental laboratorial studies, namely on the areas of psychophysiology and cognitive neuroscience applied to the study of criminal behaviour.

C105 - ECTS

General understanding of Criminal Law and doctrine of crime

C108 - ECTS

This course intends to give students a very good background in statistical methods in order to support research on criminology.

C100 - ECTS

The purpose of this course is to provide an historical and interdisciplinary perspective of the emergence and evolution of thinking about crime and deviance in Europe and North America. It will focus on the main aspects of the history of practices and theoretical conceptions about crime, deviance, criminal justice and punishment from the mid-eighteenth to the late nineteenth century.

C203 - ECTS

This curricular unit intends to provide:
- Knowledge on the main theoretical and empirical lines of current research on antisocial and delinquent behavior
in children and young people, particularly at the level of their processes and factors .
- Knowledge on the evolution of juvenile justice in Portugal , its principles, goals and their relationship with the
public policies of social care and criminal and security policies; framework of the Portuguese experience in
transformations at the international level .
- Knowledge of the legal regime currently applicable to juvenile offenders .
- Knowledge of the scientific evidence on the effectiveness of formal reaction to delinquent and antisocial behaviors
of children and youth .
- Cross-cutting research and analysis skills .
- Knowledge about the conditions for the scientific study of the phenomenon, namely the concepts and methods
that enable its delineation and characterization (volume , structure , and evolution ) .

 

C206 - ECTS

 

 To provide students with the essential frameworks of the discipline,  there included the theoretical and the various institutes, as well as detailed analysis of positive law Portuguese. The combination of theoretical and practical lessons intended to bring about a complete and harmonious education of students with a view to their future inclusion in the various careers.

 

To provide students with the essential frameworks of the discipline,  there included the theoretical and the various institutes, as well as detailed analysis of positive law Portuguese. The combination of theoretical and practical lessons intended to bring about a complete and harmonious education of students with a view to their future inclusion in the various careers.

 

C204 - ECTS

Knowing, in theoretical and empirical levels:
1. Drugs as a social problem in its multiple dimensions, namely the social implications of use and traffic
2. Classifications, typologies and effects of main psychoactive substances
3. Evolution and current configuration of drug Laws, at the national and international level. The impact of laws on behaviours
4. Drug-crime relation and its conceptual models
5. Methodologies and major results of empirical studies on social experimentation

C208 - ECTS

This course complements the statistical background initiated with Applied Statistics I.

C200 - ECTS

To know, for each of the occidental social models, types and formations of social control. To understand concepts and theories on social control. To understand, in an integrated way, the criminal justice system and social control. To understand the functioning of order, deviance and control on occidental societies.

C205 - ECTS

The program aims to introduce i) the emergency conditions of clinical criminology, theories and concepts, methods, themes and intervention fields; ii) the applications of the clinical method in the criminological praxis and the process and dynamics of the psychological assessment; iii) the different methods and techniques of psychological assessment and its scientific basis; iv) the notion of clinical practice as an evidemce based practice; v) the contribution of the scientific study of personality, psychopathology, social cognition and morality for the conceptualization of the person under clinical analysis; vi) the limits and implications of clinical criminology and ethical and deontological issues.

C207 - ECTS

Provide students with the essential framework of the material, including the theoretical and dogmatic foundations of the various institutes, and to provide a detailed analysis of Portuguese law. It is hoped that the combination of theoretical and practical classes will provide the students with a complete and harmonious training to help them in their future legal careers.

C209 - ECTS

This CU aims to provide an introduction to qualitative research (QR) in social sciences and criminology. By the end of the CU, the students should have acquired:

-An overview of the emergence and developments of QR in the framework of theoretical and epistemological
paradigms in social sciences;
- Knowledge concerning the application of qualitative methods in the field of crime, deviance and social control;
- Analysis and discussion of different data types and techniques of qualitative analysis in Criminology, being aware of the ways in which methodological choices are closely linked to theoretical and conceptual issues;
-Knowledge on the process, methods and procedures of collecting and analyzing data in QR;
-Basic abilities concerning design and implementation of a QR project.

C202 - ECTS Learning objectives of the subject are consistent and integrated with matter Security Issues II , so it must be seen as an integrated program .
Understand the concept of security , its complexity and the debates and critiques around him .
Perceive the workings of worry and apprehension regarding security issues .
Identify the devices safety investigation .
Identify and critically relate the elements of the construction of the security and its relation to violence , fear , power and dominion .
Understand the functioning of the modern state security and the problems derived from the crisis , with particular emphasis on changes due to globalization and new security markets .

C201 - ECTS

C304 - ECTS

- Criminology as field of theory and practice; its relationships with other disciplines of knowledge, namely human and social sciences.

- To place criminological thinking at the heart of the transformations in the systems of thought

- To know major epistemological traditions and being able to develop epistemological analytical grids, applying them when approaching the criminal phenomenon

-  To consider research methods and intervention practices in an epistemological way

C302 - ECTS

Consolidate and deepen the knowledge about the different intervention modes in young and adult delinquents, already introduced in other subjects.
Focus critically on the evolution of rationality and on the models of intervention in delinquents within criminal policies and philosophies.
To know the different contexts of intervention in delinquents and the major needs arisen.
To know the programs, treatment and rehabilitation techniques most used in the different contexts of intervention as well as the results of assessments studies undertaken.

C300 - ECTS

C305 - ECTS

- To point out the rise and evolution of prison in the picture of the evolution of the social systems, the penal philosophies, the knowledge about crime and sentences and the systems of social control in the occidental countries.
- To analyze the functions, purpose and criminal effectiveness of the punishment by confinement and penal sanctions and measures and frame the penitentiary policies in the frame of the criminal politics.
- Analyze the prison and the punishment by confinement in Portugal.
- Specificities of the inmate population: to know the effects of prison and ways of adaptation to prison.
- Framing the execution of custodial measures regarding the international respect for Fundamental Rights.
- Analyze specific problems in the prison context (e.g. violence, suicide, parenting etc..) and respective modes of intervention.

C301 - ECTS

C308 - ECTS

- To know the different areas that comprise the forensic sciences and their application fields.

-To acquire basic knowledge about medical-legal semiotics and the various areas of activity of legal medicine and other forensic sciences, with regard to its scope, objectives and skills.

-Articulation, regarding specific issues in the fields of Criminology, Law and Forensic Sciences.

C309 - ECTS

- Framing the relationship between behavioral sciences and law, especially those that embody the discipline "forensic psychology"; - Know methods, techniques and tools for psychological evaluation and risk assessment in forensic settings; - Knowing specificities of psychological assessment in criminal and juvenile delinquency justice systems; - Being able to reflect on the legal, ethical and professional conduct in forensic settings; knowing main nosological diseases in forensic psychiatry

C307 - ECTS

C303 - ECTS

To know the developments of community and rehabilitation policies and its strategies incorporating them and analyzing them in the context of social, political and ideological outlook transformations To be able to identify and characterize the main models of community prevention of crime and to know the conditions of its implementation and evaluation. To be able to identify and characterize the main models of specific offenders rehabilitation and to know the conditions of its implementation and evaluation

C310 - ECTS

1. Provide students with the basic concepts and frameworks for proper comprehension of political relations between criminal justice and fundamental rights

2. It is intended that students acquire knowledge in the field of essential functions, including the theoretical and dogmatic as well as analysis of the system of fundamental rights in positive law and the Portuguese international system of human rights.

3. Introduction to the concept of "fundamental rights" under the theory of the Constitution, which encompass an analysis of constitutionalism Portuguese.

 4. Understanding the specific dynamics and critical reflection on the major trends in relation to the criminal policies from the point of view of respect or disrespect for fundamental rights.

5. Reflect in more detail on the key debates and critical approaches in relation to some particular criminal policies.

C411 - ECTS

- To provide an introduction to the field of developmental criminology, its main concepts, theories, empirical studies

and methods.

-To provide an overview of the major longitudinal studies,

-To provide an overview of the theoretical and empirical contributions of the developmental approach and an

understanding of the major developmental theories.

- To provide an understanding of the implications of developmental criminology in the prevention of delinquency.

C400 - ECTS

C412 - ECTS - Understanding the origins of the contemporary police model from the
historical analysis of different forms of police at different times and
social and political circumstances.
- Distinguish the different models of contemporary police: centralist, decentralized, federal.
- know the history, the current structure and critically analyze the some
of the major Police models of Europe, America, Africa, Asia with
emphasis on the Portuguese model.
- Understand the functioning of the private security in relation with
public one in contemporary societies.

C401 - ECTS

The analysis by the student of a criminological topic based on the theoretical and empirical knowledge developed by the scientific community-

- The possibility of developing a theme related to the stage, enables the reflective dialogue between scientific knowledge and professional contextes and practice.

 

 

C405 - ECTS

- To understand core concepts of organized crime and economic crime and their application within criminological discourse; - To develop skills in critical analysis through engagement with the academic literature on organized crime and economic crime; - To develop understanding of economic approaches to research into organized crime and white-collar crime; - To appreciate the links between theories of the state and theories of organized crime and of white-collar crime; - To develop awareness of criminal justice policies and policing strategies targeting organized crime and economic crime; - To examine specific examples of organized crime and economic crime in foreign contexts and also within Portugal; - To appreciate the complex interaction between the ‘local’ and the ‘global’ regarding (transnational) organized crime; -To understand the white-collar crime specificities in relation to other types of crime.

C413 - ECTS

 Main objective: in this curricular unit, it is intended that students know, in a critical way, the phase, the method and the procedures of criminal investigation and criminalistic in the wider context of the criminal procedure and the justice system.

Specific objectives:

Critical knowledge of the sociopolitical context in which the development of the criminal investigation and criminalistic takes place;

To know the method and the criminal cycle namely at the level of understanding of its actors, dimensions and processes;

Understanding the articulation of criminal investigation with the intelligence and the interinstitucional and international cooperation;

Critical exercise of the connection between the criminal investigation activity and criminology;

To know the manifestation of contemporary forms of crime and criminal investigation;

To be aware of the studies on criminality and other products that emerge from the criminal investigation.

  

C404 - ECTS

The course aims to provide the core knowledge about:

- The principles and objectives of restorative justice, its emergency conditions, models and nationally and internationally developments.

- The emergence and development of mediation as an alternative means for settling conflicts, the main principles, objectives, models and application contexts.

- The victim-offender mediation within the  restorative justice paradigm (models, application contexts, legal and institutional framework)

- Empirical research on the practices of restorative justice, namely the evaluative research results;

- The mediation process

- The key debates and critical approaches to restorative justice and mediation

 

The course also aims to provide students the opportunity to develop essential mediation skills

C403 - ECTS

The Integration Seminary was thought to give continuity to the process started at the Interdisciplinary Seminar. The
students should be able to develop a research project, a research-action project or an intervention project that reveals the integration and application of skills and knowledge acquired during the CE.Furthermore, it is intended:
i) to consolidate the autonomy concerning the acquisition of knowledge and the development of research skills and
action throughout life, ii) to link the project to the practical training.