Victimology II

Code:

C301

Acronym:

VIT II

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Criminology

Instance: 2014/2015 - 1S (since 15-09-2014 to 19-12-2014)

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	55	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).
Provide students with the basic concepts and frameworks to fully understand relations between victimization, vulnerability and intervention.
Understand the specific dynamics and critical reflection on the major trends in relation to victimology from situations and different forms of victimization.
Reflect in more detail on the key debates and critical approaches in relation to some particular forms of victimization in Portuguese and international context.
Critically analyze key aspects in their different forms of intervention and processes of victim support.

Learning outcomes and competences

Acquire a comprehensive and connected view of the key debates and critical approaches in relation to some particular forms of victimization and their relationships and interconnections in Portuguese and international context.

Abilty to fully understand in its complexiity key concepts in victimology like vulnerability  intersectionality and others.

Ability to critically analyze one of the essential aspects of the different forms of intervention and victim support processes.

Reflect critically about the victimological research referred to different forms of victimization discussed in class.

Working method

Presencial

Program

First part


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


Second part

I. On the concept of special vulnerability: a) Victimization and vulnerable groups; b) Hate Crimes (Hate Crimes).

II. - Intersectionality and domestic violence. Some examples. a) Domestic violence and older women; b) Domestic violence and disabled women; c) Domestic violence and immigrant women.

III.- Other forms of domestic violence: a) Violence against the elderly in the family; b) Violence in homosexual couples; c) Dating violence

IV- Victims of violence at work and at school. a) Harassment in the workplace; b) Violence in schools.

V.- Victims of state violence: victimization and transitional justice: memory, truth and victims´ rights.

VI.- Other forms of victimization: specific needs and interventions. a) Stalking; b) Victims of terrorism; c) Trafficking; d) Victims of traffic accidents

Mandatory literature

Davis Robert C. 340; Victims of crime. ISBN: 0-7619-0155-8
Furniss Tilman; The^multi-professional handbook of child sexual abuse. ISBN: 0-415-05563-6
Kemshall Hazel 340; Good practice in working with victims of violence. ISBN: 1-85302-768-5
Walker Lenore E. A.; The^battered woman syndrome. ISBN: 978-0-8261-0252-2
Machado, Carla; Gonçalves, Rui A.; Violência e vítimas de crime, 1º e 2º volumes
Manita, C.; Estudo preliminar de caracterização da intervenção em Agressores no contexto da violência doméstica em Portugal, Porto: Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação., 2004
Moriarty Laura J. 340; Current issues in victimology research. ISBN: 978-1-59460-240-5
Roberts, A.R.; Crisis Intervention Handbook: Assessment, Treatment, and Research , Oxford University Press, USA; 2 edition (April 20, 2000), 2000. ISBN: 978-0195133653
Ron G. Van Kaam, J. J. M. Van Dijk, Jo-Anne M. Wemmers; - Caring for Crime Victims: Proceedings of the 9th International World Symposium on Victimology, Willow Tree Pr, 1997. ISBN: 978-1881798149
Shoham S. Giora 340; International handbook of victimology. ISBN: 978-1-4200-8547-1
Walklate Sandra 340; Handbook of victims and victimology. ISBN: 978-1-84392-257-5
WEMMERS, Jo-Anne; Victims in the Criminal Justice System , Kugler Publications, 1996. ISBN: 978-9062991440
Cicchetti Dante; Child maltreatment. ISBN: 0-521-37969-5
Myers John E. B. 340; The^APSAC handbook on child maltreatment. ISBN: 0-7619-1992-9
Roberts Albert R. 340; Crisis intervention handbook. ISBN: 0-19-513365-X
Dattilio Frank M.; Cognitive-behavioral strategies in crisis intervention. ISBN: 978-1-60623-648-2
Aitken Lynda; Gender issues in elder abuse. ISBN: 0-8039-7523-6
Karmen Andrew; Crime victims. ISBN: 0-534-02997-3
Larrauri, Elena; Victimología crítica y violencia de género, Madrid, Trotta, 2007
Moriarty Laura J.; Controversies in victimology. ISBN: 978-1-59345-568-2

Complementary Bibliography

Beleza Teresa Pizarro 1951-; Maus tratos conjugais
Gonçalves, Miguel; Machado, Carla; Matos, Marlene; Manual da escala de crenças sobre violência conjugal (ECVC). ISBN: 9789729805295
Kalmar Roberta; Child abuse. ISBN: 0-8403-1723-9
Magalhães Teresa 1962-; Maus tratos em crianças e jovens. ISBN: 972-8717-39-3
Manita Celina 340; Violência doméstica. ISBN: 978-972-597-315-8
Pina, M. ; Do (des)cuidar ao (des)vincular: Um desvio na trajectória desenvolvimental familiar normativa. , Porto: Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, 2004
Gracia Ibánez, Jorge; El maltrato familiar hacia las personas mayores. Un análisis sociojurídico, Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza (PUZ), 2012

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.

Theoretical classes (the description and explanation of contents) combined with tutorial supervision of the exercises to apply knowledge transmitted. Emphasis will be, in the latter, work in small groups focusing on analyzing and discussing scientific papers previously prepared by the students.

It is also introduced the direct approach, whenever possible, to the relevant contexts in the domain.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	75,00
Prova oral	25,00
Total:	100,00

Calculation formula of final grade

Distributed Evaluation: Active participation in the activities of the discipline with exposure of assigned readings and active participation in class (five values). The final exam (fifteen values). Evaluation with the presentation to the examination: Final exam (fifteen points). An additional question, the exam on the assigned readings and discussed in class (5 points).

Evaluation Formula: Distributed evaluation: papers and presentation of readings 25%, final exam: 75%.

Observations

BIBLIOGRAFIA PRIMEIRA PARTE

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-Gonçalves, M. & Machado, C. (1999). Psicoterapia com crianças abusadas sexualmente: da exposição à re-autoria. Psicologia: Teoria, Investigação e Prática, 2, 347-364.
-Gonçalves, M. & Rangel, M. H. (2002). Terapia narrativa da Ansiedade. Psicologia Clínica e psiquiatria. Coimbra: Quarteto.
-Gonçalves, M.; Simões, M.R.; Almeida L.S. & Machado, C. (2003). Avaliação psicologia: instrumentos validados para a população portuguesa, Vol. I. Coimbra: Quarteto.
-Guillaumin, J. (1965). La dynamique de l’examen psychologique. Paris : Dunod.
- Furniss, T. (1991). The multiprofessional handbook of child sexual abuse: integrated management, therapy and legal intervention. London: Routledge.
-Lang, J. L. (1979). Introduction à la psychopatologie infantile. Paris: Dunod.
- Lutzker, J.R. (1997). Handbook of child abuse research and treatment. New York: Plenum Press.
- Machado, C. (1996). Maus-tratos de menores, vitimação e poder: Proposta de um modelo integrado de análise. Psicologia: Teoria, Investigação e Prática. Braga: Centro de Estudos em Educação e Psicologia, Universidade do Minho, vol.1, 1, 133-148.
- Machado, C. (2002). Abuso sexual de crianças. In C. Machado & R. Gonçalves (Eds.), Violência e Vítimas de Crimes, Vol 2 – Crianças (pp. 39-93). Coimbra: Quarteto.
- Machado, C. & Gonçalves, R.A (2002). Violência e vítimas de crimes 1 – Adultos. Coimbra: Quarteto.
- Machado, C. & Gonçalves, R.A (2002). Violência e vítimas de crimes 2 – Crianças. Coimbra: Quarteto.
- Magalhães, T. (2004). Maus tratos em crianças e jovens: guia prático para profissionais. Coimbra: Quarteto.
- Manita, C. (2004). Estudo preliminar de caracterização da intervenção em Agressores no contexto da violência doméstica em Portugal. Porto: Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação.
- Martins, P. C. (1999). Sobre a convenção dos direitos da criança, da psicologia dos direitos aos direitos da psicologia. Infância e Juventude. Revista do Instituto de Reinserção Social. Lisboa: Ministério da Justiça, 3, 51-70.
- Matos, M. & Gonçalves, M. (2002). Espaços identitários da vitimação conjugal: da narrativa problemática à narrativa preferencial. Psychologica, 29, 53-70.
- Mazet, Ph. & Houzel, D. (1979). Psychiatrie de l’enfant et de l’adolescent. Paris: P.U.F.
- Robert, D. C., Lurigio, A. J. & Skogan, W. G. (1997). Victims of crime. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
- Sani, A. I. (2002). As crianças e a violência. Coimbra: Quarteto.
- Soares, N. F. (2001). Outras infâncias: a situação social das crianças atendidas numa comissão de protecção de menores. Braga: Centro de Estudos da Criança, Universidade do Minho
- Tribunas, F. & Relvas, A P. (2002). Famílias de acolhimento e vinculação na adolescência. In Madalena Alarcão e Ana Paula Relvas (Coords). Novas formas de família (pp. 53-113). Coimbra: Quarteto.
- Walker, L.E. (1994). Abused women and survivor therapy: a practical guide for the psychotherapist. Washington, DC: APA.
- Walker, L.E. (2000). The Battered Woman Syndrome. New York: Springer.
- White, M. & Epston, D. (1990). Narrative means to therapeutic ends. New York: Norton.
- Pina, M. (2004). Do (des)cuidar ao (des)vincular: Um desvio na trajectória desenvolvimental familiar normativa. Seminário da licenciatura em Psicologia da Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto (não publicado).

BIBLIOGRAFIA SEGUNDA PARTE

AITKEN, L. y GRIFFIN, G. (1996): Gender issues in elder abuse, Londres: Sage.
BACA, E., ECHEBURÚA, E. Y TAMARIT, J.M., Coords. Manual de Victimología, Valencia; Tirant lo Blanch, 2006.
BERISTÁIN, A. (2000). Victimología. Nueve palabras clave. Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch.
ELÍAS, R. (1993). Victims Still: The Political Manipulation of Crime Victims . Sage, Newbury Park.
GRACIA IBÁÑEZ, J (2012), El maltrato familiar hacia las personas mayores. Un análisis sociojurídico, Zaragoza, Prensas Universitarias.
KARMEN, A (2010) Crime victims. An intriduction to victimology. Belmon, Wadsworth.
LANDROVE DÍAZ, G. (1990). Victimología. Tirant lo Blanch: Valencia.
LARRAURI, E (2007), Criminología crítica y violencia de género. Madrid, Trotta.
MORIARTY, L (ED), (2008), Controversies in Victimology. Anderson publishing: Newark, NJ.
MORILLAS FERNÁNDEZ D. ET AL (2011), Victimología: Un estudio sobre la víctima y los procesos de victimización. Madrid. Dyckinson.
MULLENDER, A ET AL. (2002) Children´s Perspective on Domestic Violence. London: SAGE.
SANI, A.I. (ORG.) (2011a). Temas de Vitimologia: realidades emergentes e respostas sociais ed. 1, Coimbra: Almedina.
SANI, A.I. (2011b). Crianças vítimas de violência: representações e impacto do fenómeno. ed. 1, 500 vols., . Porto: Edições UFP