Security Issues I

Code:

C202

Acronym:

QSEG I

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Criminology

Instance: 2024/2025 - 2S (since 10-02-2025 to 23-05-2025)

Active?	Yes
Web Page:	https://sigarra.up.pt/fdup/pt/ucurr_geral.ficha_uc_view?pv_ocorrencia_id=405624
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	56	Oficial Study Plan LC 2023	2	-	6	-
		Oficial Study Plan LC	2	-	6	-

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

Learning objectives of the subject are consistent and integrated with Security Issues II, so it must be seen as an integrated program:

- Understand the concept of security, its complexity and the debates and criticisms around it;

- Understand the functioning and organization of interventions concerning the phenomenon of (in) security, nowadays, in most developed democratic countries - the governance of security paradigm;

- Understanding the trends regarding the security vision as a product, as well as the market developments to security service providers and technologies related to security;

- Know the different problems, answers and actors in the field of security;

- To critically analyze the new trends in the field of security;

- Know different models of crime prevention, such as social prevention, situational prevention and community prevention.

 

- To understand the influence of the physical and social environment on the feeling of insecurity and crime.

Learning outcomes and competences

By the end of the Curricular Unit (CU), the students should be able to understand:

- The complexity and multidimensionality of the (in)security concept;

- The individual, contextual and social determinants of fear of crime. 

- The decentralized, multilateralized and commodified nature of security today, co-produced by different public, private and community actors;

- The relationship of security with phisical and social environmental factors;

Working method

Presencial

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

Não se aplica.

Program

1. Definition of security and insecurity, critical discussion of the definition.

2. The governance of security.

3. The different actors in the field of security: the state and the police, the private sector and the civil society, as well as the relationships and partnerships between them.

4. The security market: companies, businesses and technologies.

5. The phisical and social environmental factors in the scope of security.

Mandatory literature

Recasens Amadeu; La^seguridad y sus políticas. ISBN: 978-84-96758-26-1
Zedner Lucia; Security. ISBN: 978-0-415-39176-4
Robert Philippe 1939-; O^cidadão, o crime e o Estado. ISBN: 972-46-1339-9
Crawford Adam 340; Crime and insecurity. ISBN: 1-903240-48-4
Wood Jennifer 340; Democracy, society and the governance of security. ISBN: 978-0-521-61642-3
Johnston Les; Governing security. ISBN: 978-0-415-14962-4
Evans David John 1947 340; Crime, policing and place. ISBN: 0-415-04990-3
Brantingham Paul J.; Environmental criminology. ISBN: 0-88133-539-8
Guedes , Inês Sousa; Medo do crime : revisão conceptual e metodológica
Guedes , Inês Sousa; Medo do crime : emergência, reações emocionais e discursos : contributos para a utilização de multi-metodologias
Guedes , Inês Sousa; Podemos reduzir a insegurança? : um enfoque no ambiente físico
Samuel Moreira ; A Perceção dos Cidadãos Face aos Agentes de Segurança Privada, 2013

Complementary Bibliography

Crawford Adam 340; Plural policing. ISBN: 1-86134-671-9
Crawford Adam; The^local governance of crime. ISBN: 0-19-829845-5
Agra Cândido da 1948-; Podemos medir a criminalidade e a segurança?
Sampson Robert J.; Crime in the making. ISBN: 0-674-17605-7
Weisburd David 340; Putting crime in its place. ISBN: 978-0-387-09687-2

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical and practical classes, combining the exposition of the contents with exercises of application of the transmitted knowledge. Work in small groups focused on analyzing and discussing scientific papers and other documentary sources previously prepared by each student.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	70,00
Trabalho escrito	20,00
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	10,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	3,00
Estudo autónomo	87,00
Frequência das aulas	57,00
Trabalho escrito	15,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

In order to complete with success the CU,  the student must:

• Perform the distributed evaluation (DE) and the final exam (FE);

• Obtain at least 8 values in each of the evaluation components (DE and FE);

• Obtain a final weighted score of the two evaluation elements equal or higher than 10 values.

- Not performing the DE during the semester prevents the realization of the FE in the normal and appeal season.

- The FE can be performed in the appeal season, considering the grade obtained in the DE (since equal or higher than 8 values), if the student has missed the regular season.

Calculation formula of final grade

Final Classification = 0,30xDE + 0,70xFE

Examinations or Special Assignments

The DE is a written assignement, carried out by small groups of students, about one of the topics proposed by the lecturers.

The assignement must be delivered at a date stipulated by the lecturers (forthcoming the date of the end of the semester).

The completion of the assignement is mandatory, being the classification obtained in this component considered when determining the final grade in the regular and appeal FE season.

Internship work/project

Não se aplica.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

According to the applicable regulations.

Classification improvement

The improvement of classification is accomplished by FE, and the DE element is considered in the calculation of the final grade.

Observations

Not applicable.