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Clinic Criminology

Code: C205     Acronym: CRIM

Keywords
Classification Keyword
OFICIAL Criminology

Instance: 2014/2015 - 2S (since 13-02-2015 to 22-05-2015)

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 53 Oficial Study Plan LC 2 - 6 -

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

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.

Learning outcomes and competences


It is expected that students acquire the skills that are necessary to reflect around the core concepts of clinical criminology. We also intend to introduce and train essential clinical skills in assessment and intervention.

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)


Not applicable

Program

I - Personality, Emotion, Social Cognition and Morality: Integrated perspective from the standview of the Social, Cognitive and Affective Neurosciences

a) Introduction to the molecular bases of personality: - Phenotypes and endophenotypes; - The search for the endophenotypical bases that contribute to the emergence of personality traits; - Etiology of personality traits; - Neuroimaging and personality.

 b )Emotion and personality: - Definition and functions of emotion; - Theories of emotion.

c) Social Cognition and Morality: Theories on the development of the sense of care and justice; - Broader perspectives on the foundations of morality (rationalist vs. Intuicionists vs. Socio-intuicionist perspectives).

d) Exposure to stress and decision making impairments

e) The implications of neuroscience for the legal definition of responsability

 

II - Clinical Criminology, Dangerousness and Assessment:

 a) Clinical Criminology: Introduction; - Definition and object; - Emergency and crisis

 b) The concept of Dangerousness: Dangerousness and criminal personality; - Conceptual framework (criminologic and juridic perspectives); - From dangerousness to risk: historical and critical approach

 c) The clinical method and the phenomenological perspective; Understanding and interpretation; - Process and dynamics of the psychological assessment; - Observation and evaluation models and techniques; - The clinical interview.

d) Actuarial assessment: Objectives and instruments;

 e) Clinical approach to special delinquent groups: aggressive and sexual delinquents.

Mandatory literature

Ackerman Marc J.; Essentials of forensic psychological assessment. ISBN: 0-471-33186-4
Bartol Curt R. 1940-; Psychology and law. ISBN: 0-534-16320-3
Bonta, J.; Risk-needs assessment and treatment. In A. T. Harland (Ed.), Choosing correctional options that work (pp. 18-32). , Thousand, Oaks: Californie. , 1996
Bonta, J. & Wormith, S. ; Risk and need assessment. In G. Mclvor & P. Raynor (Eds.), Developments in social work with offenders (pp. 131-152)., London, England: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. , 2008
Canepa G. 340; La^criminologie clinique
Cario, R. & Favard, A-M.; La personnalité criminelle, Érès, 2002
Casoni Dianne; La^psychocriminologie. ISBN: 2-7606-1867-6
DEBUYST, Ch. ; Le concept de dangerosité et un de ses éléments constitutifs: la personnalité (criminelle). Déviance et Société,1 (4), 363-388, 1977
DEBUYST, C. ; L'étiologie, envisagée dans le cadre des études cliniques. Les concepts de base et leur utilisation: de la notion de personnalité delinquante à celle de comportement délinquant, celui-ci étant envisagé a partir de son sens. Rassegna di criminologia, IX(2), 443, 1978
DEBUYST, C. ; Les paradigmes du droit pénal et les criminologies cliniques. Criminologie, XXV(2), 49-72., 1992
Debuyst Christian 070; Histoire des savoirs sur le crime & la peine. ISBN: 2-8041-1966-1
Debuyst Christian 300; Dangerosite et justice penale. ISBN: 2-88049-005-7
Duflot-Favori Colette; Le^psychologue expert en justice. ISBN: 2-13-041412-5
Foucault Michel 1926-1984; Naissance de la clinique. ISBN: 2-13-053639-5
Gassin Raymond; Criminologie. ISBN: 2-247-01841-6
Hess Allen K. 340; The^handbook of forensic psychology. ISBN: 0-471-17771-7
Leclercq Jacques 070; L.homme criminel
Tullio Benigno di; Principes de criminologie clinique
Pervin Lawrence A.; Personality. ISBN: 978-0-470-55305-3
Hansenne, M. ; Psicologia da Personalidade, Climepsi Editores., 2003
LeDoux, J. ; O Cérebro Emocional: Os Misteriosos Alicerces da Vida Emocional, Pergaminho., 1995
Lourenço, O. ; Psicologia do Desenvolvimento Moral: Teoria, Dados e Implicações, Almedina. , 2006
Sinnot-armstrong, W. ; Moral Psychology, vol 1. Evolution of Morality - Adaptations and Innateness., MIT Press, 2008
Sinnot-armstrong, W. ; Moral Psychology, vol 3.The Cognitive Science of Morality – Intuition and Diversity , MIT Press, 2008

Complementary Bibliography

Born Michel; Psicologia da delinquência. ISBN: 972-796-159-2
Guay, J. P. ; Prédiction actuarielle et prédiction clinique: Le dernier souffle d’une pratique traditionelle. Revue Internationale de Criminologie et de Police Scientifique, 2, 149-164, 2006
Kapardis Andreas; Psychology and law. ISBN: 0-521-55738-0

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical-practical classes, combining the description and discussion of the main contents of the program with practical group-work. Practical classes are orientated towards the active search for information, the integration pf the contents through the analysis of recent scientific literature and the discussion of the implication of current theoretical models and research for the analysis of particular cases.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation Weight (%)
Exame 75,00
Participação presencial 0,00
Trabalho escrito 25,00
Total: 100,00

Eligibility for exams


See general rules

Calculation formula of final grade

Final Grade = 0,75xFE + 0,25xDA, where FE and DA designate, respectively, Final Exam grade and Distributed Assessment Grade.

Each of these two elements is assessed from 0 to 20 points.

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