Safety Issues II

Code:

C300

Acronym:

QSEG I

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Criminology

Instance: 2015/2016 - 1S (since 14-09-2015 to 18-12-2015)

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	40	Oficial Study Plan LC	3	-	6	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Following the classes of Safety Issues I, students should be enable, through a critique vision, to acquire theoretical and practice knowledge to:

• Identify and understand different manifestations of subjective insecurity, conceiving it as complex and multidimensional phenomenon.
• To understand the individual, contextual and social factors that are related to subjective insecurity.
• To comprehend the different ways of measuring subjective insecurity dimensions (fear of crime, risk perception and behaviors for security reasons) and objective insecurity.
• To identify the strategies facing insecurity phenomenon, understanding them in different levels of their origin.
• To understand the new challenges of a globalized society: the “glocal”.
• Critically analyze the new issues related to transnational security, focusing on cybercrime, terrorism and human trafficking
• To identify and understand the strategies facing the complexity of new tendencies of transnational security.

Learning outcomes and competences

Students should be able to understand the complexity and multidimensionality of fear of crime, the variables that explain fear of crime and also its operationalization.
They should also be able to characterize the problems of national and transnational issues such as human trafficking, cybercrime and terrorism.

Working method

Presencial

Program

• (In) Security as a multidimensional phenomenon


• Factors of subjective insecurity: individual, contextual and social factors


• Measurement of subjective and objective insecurity


• Strategies to insecurity in different levels (individual, local, national and transnational)


• Transnational insecurity issues: cybercrime, terrorism and human trafficking


• New strategies to the challenges of transnational insecurity

Mandatory literature

Zedner Lucia; Security. ISBN: 978-0-415-39176-4
Guedes Inês Sousa 1987-; Medo do crime
Agra Cândido da 1948-; Podemos medir a criminalidade e a segurança?
Crawford Adam; Crime prevention and community safety
Martin, G; Understanding terrorism: challenges, perspectives and issues., Sage Publications., 2015
Wood, J., & Dupont, B. ; Democracy, society and the governance of security, Cambridge University Press., 1999

Complementary Bibliography

KatjaFranko ; Globalization and Crime, Sage Publications
Robert Philippe 1939-; O^cidadão, o crime e o Estado. ISBN: 972-46-1339-9
Hagan Frank E.; Introduction to criminology. ISBN: 0-8304-1351-0
Schram & Tibbetts; Introduction to criminology: why do they do it?, Sage Publications , 2014
Gill; The Handbook of Security , Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Wakefield, A. ; Selling security: the private policing of public space, Willan Publishing., 2003
Fielding Nigel; Community policing. ISBN: 0-19-826027-X

Comments from the literature

Papers

Zedner, L. (2006). Liquid security: managing the market for crime control. Criminology & Criminal Justice, 6, 267-288
Machado, C. & Agra, C. (2002). Insegurança e Medo do Crime : da Ruptura da Sociabilidade à Reprodução da Ordem Social. Revista Portuguesa de Ciência Criminal, 12, 79-101.
Guedes, I. (2012). Sentimento de insegurança, personalidade e emoções disposicionais: que relações? Dissertação de Mestrado em Criminologia, FDUP. 
Warr, M. (2000). Fear of crime in the United States: Avenues for research and policy. Measurement and analysis of crime and justice, 4, 541-489
Taylor. R. (1999). The incivilities thesis: Theory, measurement and policy. In Langworthy, R. (Ed.), Measuring what matters: Proceedings from the Policing Research Institute meetings (pp. 65–88). Washington, DC: National Institute of Justice.

Teaching methods and learning activities

 

 

There will be theoretical classes for the contents presentation combined with tutorial supervision. We highlight the working groups, which will have direct contact to the relevant contexts of the domain.

 

 

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

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

Eligibility for exams

See general rules

Calculation formula of final grade

Exam: 70%
Distributed evalutation: 30%

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

See genera rules

Classification improvement

See general rules