Penitentiary Sistems

Code:

C305

Acronym:

SPEN

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Criminology

Instance: 2011/2012 - 1S

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	51	Oficial Study Plan LC	3	-	6	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

- 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
- Consider the alternative sentences to prison, the specific groups of delinquents subject of application and its effect.

Program

- The emergence and evolution of the prison: genealogical and historical approach;
- History of the execution of sentences: goals, functions, unfinished reforms;
- The prison and imprisonment as primary sentence. The study throughout its history, its functioning and its problems;
- The prison models, their spatial-temporal evolution and subsequent questioning about Man, about Man in society, as well as on the meaning attributed to the offense;
- Beccaria’s revolution and the dominant role that imprisonment takes from the 19th century on.
- Foucault and the disciplining role of prison and model of society that supports it;
- The prison sentence: statistical data and general trends, the prison and its relationship to crime, imprisonment and the non-custodial sentences;
- The prison sentence in Portugal and the Portuguese penitentiary system;
- Penitentiary policies: the use of imprisonment and functions of imprisonment within the criminal policies - evolution and current situation in western societies, models of organization and management of different penitentiary systems;
- The European recommendations (UN Convention, CEDH, CEPT) and the vision of the detained (from object to subject);
- Prison overcrowding: Causes, consequences, system’s response;
- Alternatives to imprisonment : problems of evaluation and effectiveness;
- Electronic Surveillance: Framework and its evolution in various prison systems. The Portuguese reality;
- Specific issues (mental health, substance abuse, violence, sexual crime, ethnic minorities ...) and modes of intervention in the prison context;

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lectures and practices in which the contents exposed are complemented by the application of the knowledge acquired to the themes presented.
Small group work will be privileged so as to analyse and discuss the subject matters through documentary source research prepared by the student and simultaneously granting the possibity of direct contact with the penitentiary system through visits to prisons.

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Observations

-Beccaria, C. (1991). Des délits et des peines. Paris: Flammarion.

-Blumstein, A. & Cohen, J. (1973). A Theory of the Stability of Punishment. The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 64 (2), 198-207.

-Cavadino, M. & Dignan, J. (2002). The penal system. An introduction. London: Sage Publications.

-Chantraine, G. (2004). Par-delà les murs. Expériences et trajectoires en maison d’arrêt. Paris: PUF.

-Combessie, Ph. (2004). Sociologie de la prison. Paris: Éditions La Découverte.

-Cusson, M. (1999). Pourquoi punir ? Paris: Dalloz.

-Cusson, M. (1990). De l'évolution pénale. Déviance et Société, 14(3), 315-323.

-Dünkel, F. & Snacken, S. (2005). Les prisions en Europe. Paris : L’Harmattan.

-Faugeron, C., Chauvenet, A. & Combessie, Ph. (1996). Approches de la prison. Bruxelles : De Boeck Université .

-Foucault, M. (1982). Vigiar e punir. Petrópolis: Ed. Vozes.

-Goffman, E. (2001). Manicómios, prisões e conventos. São Paulo: Editora Perspectiva S. A.

-Kellens G. (1991). Précis de pénologie et de droit des sanctions pénales. Liège: Collection Scientifique de la Faculté de Droit.

-Kellens, G. (2000). Punir, Pénologie & Droit des sanctions pénales. Editions juridiques de l’Université de Liège.

-Kuhn, A. (2005). Sanctions pénales: est-ce bien la peine? Grolley : L'Hèbe.

-Kuhn, A. (1993). Punitivité, politique criminelle et surpeuplement carcéral; ou comment réduire la population carcérale. Berne: Haupt.

-Kuhn, A. (2000). Détenus: Combiens? Pourquoi, Que faire? Berne: Haupt.

-Lemire, G. (1994). Anatomie de la prison. Montréal : PUM.

-Landreville P. (1988). La surpopulation des prisons: Quelques considérations à partir de la situation canadienne. Déviance et Société, 12(3), 291-296.

-Lazerges C. (1987). La politique criminelle. Que sais-je ? Paris: PUF.