Victimology II

Code:

C301

Acronym:

VIT II

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Criminology

Instance: 2009/2010 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Course/CS Responsible:	Criminology

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
C	25	Oficial Study Plan LC	3	-	6	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

- It is intended that the pupils acquire knowledge about the evaluation and psycho-criminological intervention applied on the study of violence victims, but also of the perpetrators.
- To understand the specific dynamic of the intra-familiar violence, the recklessness, abuse and sexual abuse of children.
- To develop a comprehensive-clarifying knowledge of the underlying specificity:
- about the citizen-object of the intervention: adult, adolescent, child;
- about the role played relating to the crime: author, victim (direct/indirect);
-about the different modes of work next to the victims (studies, evaluations, intervention in crisis and continued psychological support),
- about together near the aggressors (voluntary clients/sent by the justice system);
-Regard the intervention with aggressors as one way to prevent the (re)vitimization.
- To know the different support services to the victims in Portugal and respective areas of intervention (medical, psychological, legal).

Program

I - Process of evaluation and psychological intervention

II - The specificity of the intra-familiar victimization:

a) Intervention with victims:
- explicative theories and types of intervention
- cycle of violence and different phases;
- intervention in crisis;
- continued psychological support.

b) Intervention with aggressors:
- underlying ethical and deontological questions;
- instrumentalization risks / technician and service manipulation;
- explicative / guiding theories of the intervention programs;
- aggressor typologies;
- consumptions and dependencies in the domestic violence;
- types of intervention with aggressors.

c) Intervention with children victims violence:
- types of intervention;
- the resource to the playful activity,
- intervene to prevent: inter-generational violence cycle
- institutionalized children,

III - The politics and institutional practices of victim support and prevention of victimation

Teaching methods and learning activities

Being a discipline more that looks to deepen and consolidate the contents of Vitimologia I, developing them in a way more directed to the intervention next to crime victims, special of violence, it is privileged, along with the lessons of expositive type, the study and analysis of the methods of intervention in victims, through the debate of practical cases. The field of work will allow the contact of the students with institutions, services and professionals who work in the area of victim support. These activities will be the object of report of theoretic-practical integration on a subject or specific side of victimology. The elaboration of this assignment will be submitted to the tutorial orientation (TO) of the professor of the discipline.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

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