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

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 and Behavioral Sciences.

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

C105 - ECTS

General understanding of Criminal Law and doctrine of crime

C108 - ECTS

This course introduces students to the descriptive and inferential statistical analysis, always relying on the intensive use of statistical analysis software.

With this curricular unit, it is intended to provide students with knowledge about the instruments and techniques of statistical analysis most appropriate to the treatment of data that is faced in the description, explanatory study and prospective analysis of facts, phenomena and behaviours in the field of crime, justice and security. It is also intended that students be capable in using statistical analysis software such as IBM SPSS Statistics and JASP.

C110 - ECTS

This course aims to provide an introduction to Qualitative Research in social sciences and criminology. The course will:
a) present the start and developments of qualitative research epistemologies at the heart of social sciences and Criminology
b) provide an introduction to the logics of qualitative research
c) support in developing basic skills in conceiving and planing a qualitative research, especially in the topics of crime, deviance, victimisation and social control;
d) offer a braod perspective about the most important methods of data collection and analysis.

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 criminal procedural law;
- Identifying and understanding the various procedural models, their fundamental characteristics and their estrutural principles;
- Deepening theoretical and dogmatic foundations of the studied themes, as well as its projections in terms of legal regulations and jurisprudential solutions;
- Promoting a critical and autonomous reflection on central criminal procedure themes.

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.Prevention, treatment and harm reduction approaches
4. Evolution and current configuration of drug Laws, at the national and international level. The impact of laws on behaviours
5. Drug-crime relation and its conceptual models
6. Methodologies and major results of empirical studies on social experimentation

C208 - ECTS

This curricular unit complements the knowledge transmitted in Applied Statistics I.

With this curricular unit, it is intended that students solidify and deepen their knowledge of statistics and can understand and interpret well the results of quantitative analysis present in the scientific literature. It is also intended that students be able, in their own research, to select the most appropriate statistical tools for data analysis problems they need to solve. Finally, students are also expected to able to use extensively statistical analysis software, such as IBM SPSS Statistics and JASP.

C200 - ECTS

- Acquire the key concepts and know the main theoretical developments and empirical applications of the problematic of social control, deviance and crime.

- Acquire the conceptual and methodological tools to analyse the main systems of social control and punishment of crime and deviance, particularly the criminal justice system in contemporary societies.

- Analyse and discuss relevant empirical and theoretical literature on social control.

C205 - ECTS

1. The emergency conditions of clinical criminology, theories and concepts, methods, themes, and intervention fields;
2. The applications of the clinical method in the criminological praxis and the process and dynamics of the psychological assessment;
3. Knowing clinical practice as an evidence-based practice;
4. The different methods and techniques of psychological assessment and its scientific basis;
5. The contribution of the scientific study of psychopathology and crime for the conceptualization of the person under clinical analysis;
6. The limits and implications of clinical criminology and ethical and deontological issues.

C207 - ECTS - Provide an overview of current doctrine on evidence, procedural acts and appeals;
- Deepen the theoretical and dogmatic bases of the studied institutes, as well as their projections in terms of legal regulation and jurisprudential solutions;
- Promote autonomous and critical reflection on central problems of criminal procedure.

C210 - ECTS - Learn about the historical and epistemological conditions for the emergence and development of scientific knowledge about crime, criminals and social reaction in Western countries, with a special focus on Portugal.
- Reflect on the major foundational criminological issues from a critical historical and epistemological perspective
- To develop reasoned reflections on today's major criminological topics, based on a critical analysis of the historical development of Criminology.
- The program will focus in particular on the conceptions of crime, the criminal and social reaction throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. These conceptions will be approached using epistemological tools borrowed from Foucault, Bachelard and Kuhn.

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C202 - ECTS

Learning objectives of the subject are consistent and integrated with Security Issues II, so it must be seen as an integrated program:

- Understand the concept of security, its complexity and the debates and criticisms around it;

- Understand the functioning and organization of interventions concerning the phenomenon of (in) security, nowadays, in most developed democratic countries - the governance of security paradigm;

- Understanding the trends regarding the security vision as a product, as well as the market developments to security service providers and technologies related to security;

- Know the different problems, answers and actors in the field of security;

- To critically analyze the new trends in the field of security;

- Know different models of crime prevention, such as social prevention, situational prevention and community prevention.

 

- To understand the influence of the physical and social environment on the feeling of insecurity and crime.

C201 - ECTS

- Analyze the emergency of victimology as an area of scientific knowledge and its place regarding criminology.
- Analyze the victim while object of study and knowledge: different classifications, typologies and definitions.
- Reflect about the role of the victim in the crime that makes it as such.
- To know and to integrate the historic-theoretic evolution of victimology and the main psychosocial and criminological lines of thought that explain violence.
- To understand and to integrate the experience of the victimization, its dynamics and consequences from the results of the produced empirical investigation in this field. - To know the different types of violence, crime, victimization, as well as the methods of study of the victim and victimization.
- To understand and to analyze critically on the position of the victim in the system of criminal justice, its rights and necessities, fitting it in the national and international legal-political developments produced in this domain.

C313 - ECTS

This curricular unit (CU) is developed around two complementary axes - organized crime and economic crime.

With this CU we aim to present the main theoretical and empirical elements associated to both axes, providing students with the tools to make a critical discussion of the forms that these crimes take and the formal and informal reaction to them.

For this purpose, in an integrated way, students are exposed to:

- the fundamental concepts of organized crime and economic crime and their application in criminological discourse;

- the interdisciplinary nature of research on organized crime and white-collar crime;

- criminal justice policies and policing strategies against organized crime and economic crime;

- examples of organized crime and economic crime in external contexts and in Portugal;

- the specificities of white-collar and economic crime in relation to other forms of crime;

- the latest quantitative techniques for analyzing organized crime networks.

C302 - ECTS

- Consolidate and deepen the knowledge about the different prevention models in antisocial young and adults, already introduced in other subjects;

-Focus critically on the evolution of rationality of prevention models in antissocial behaviours within criminal policies and philosophies;

- To know early prevention models of antisocialbehavior   in children, youth, family and community;

- To know programs and techniques of prevention more used in different contexts and specific populations and know the results of the performed evaluation studies.

C300 - ECTS

In a logical continuation and coherent with the Security Questions I classes, the students should be able, from a critical perspective, to acquire knowledge and practical to:

• Critically analyze new security issues of a transnational nature, with emphasis on non-cybercrime and cyber-security, terrorism and trafficking in human beings.
• To know the main characteristics and the challenges of cybercrime in the current society.
• Know the different types of cybercrime, their profiles and techniques.
• Understanding the Complexity of Disinformation, the Differences Between Related Terms, and the Factors of Susceptibility and Dissemination of Fake News.
• Understand the complexity of terrorism definition.
• Know the different typologies of terrorism, as well as criminological theories that try to explain it.
• Deepen the process of radicalization.
• Critically analyze the problem of human trafficking and how it has been prevented. 

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 To understand the specific dynamics and to reflect critically on the main tendencies in relation to Victimology from different situations and forms of victimization.

Reflect on the main debates and critical approaches regarding some forms of victimization in the Portuguese and international contexts.

Provide the frameworks and basic concepts for a correct understanding of the relationships between victimization, vulnerability and intervention.

It is intended that students acquire knowledge in the scope of evaluation, investigation and intervention with victims of crime.

Critically analyze in its essential aspects the different forms of intervention and mechanisms to support victims

C308 - ECTS Provide an acquisition of knowledge and skills to prepare futuregraduates in Criminology to act correctly and appropriately whenconfronted in their professional lives with issues related to the production of expert evidence, the nature of the forensic and other forensic sciences so as to contribute to the effective administration of justice.

C309 - ECTS

 - To frame the relation between behavioral sciences and law, especially those that are implicated in the discipline of "forensic psychology"; - Know methods, techniques and tools for psychological evaluation and risk assessment in forensic settings; - Knowing the specificities of psychological assessment in criminal and juvenile delinquency justice systems; - Know the legal framework of expert role - Know the prevailing disorders in forensic psychiatry and its implications for psychiatric forensic expertise- Being able to reflect about the legal, ethical and professional conduct aspects in forensic settings

 

C307 - 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.

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 specific offenders rehabilitation and to know the conditions of its implementation and evaluation

C310 - ECTS

- Provide students with the basic concepts and frameworks for proper comprehension of political relations between criminal justice and fundamental rights.
- 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.
- Introduction to the concept of "fundamental rights" under the theory of the Constitution, which encompass an analysis of Portuguese constitutionalism.
- 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. 

C426 - ECTS

C414 - ECTS

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

C412 - ECTS By the end of the Curricular Unit (CU), the students should be able to:

1. Understand the origins of the contemporary police model from the historical analysis of different forms of police at different times and social and political circumstances;

2. Understand the security concept evolution and its relationship with the power, analyzing how it manifests in the police models;

3. Understand the role and functioning of private security in relation to public security in contemporary societies: the security governance;

4. Know and to distinguish different contemporary theoretical police and policing models, in a organic and functional perspective;

5. Know the history and the organization of some of the major implemented police models, as well as to reflect critically on them;

6. Understand in depth the evolution of the organization and functioning of the Portuguese police model, reflecting critically on it from a systemic perspective.

C423 - ECTS

C420 - 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.

C425 - ECTS

MAIN OBJECTIVE

In this curricular unit it is intended that students critically understand the sociopolitical context, the different phases, the method and procedures of criminal investigations and criminalistic in a systemic context.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

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

Understanding the manifestation of contemporary forms of crime and criminal investigation;

Understanding the criminal investigation cycle, namely in terms of understanding its conceptual context, its actors, mechanisms and operating principles;

Understand, from a perspective of historical evolution, the importance and development of the evidence activity;

Understanding the criminal investigation activity in the complex exchange process between Law, Technique and Science.

 

  

C422 - ECTS This course explores the structure, dynamics, and impact of criminal networks in both traditional organized crime and more recent forms such as drug trafficking, terrorism, cybercrime, and human trafficking. It combines insights from criminology, sociology, economics, and network science to understand how criminal networks are formed, operate, and evolve. Students will be introduced to methods of analysing criminal networks, including social network analysis (SNA), and the role of technology in facilitating modern criminal organizations. Emphasis will be placed on network theory, law enforcement techniques, and the challenges of disrupting criminal operations.

This curricular unit aims to:

1. Present the structure and functioning of various organised criminal groups as criminal networks.
2. Explain how Social Network Analysis (SNA) could be profitably applied to the study criminal organizations.
3. Explore SNA software tools such as Social Network Visualizer, Gephi, and R for analysing criminal networks.
4. Exhaustively present and explain techniques for mapping, visualising, and interpreting the structure of criminal networks.
5. Critically discuss the strengths and limitations of SNA in addressing complex criminal phenomena.
6. Analyse case studies of organized crime, terrorism, and cybercrime networks.