Investigação Criminal e Criminalística

Code:

C425

Acronym:

INVCREC

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Criminology

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

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	35	Oficial Study Plan LC 2023	4	-	3	-
		Oficial Study Plan LC	4	-	3	-

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

MAIN OBJECTIVE

In this curricular unit it is intended that students critically understand the sociopolitical context, the different phases, the method and procedures of criminal investigations and criminalistic in a systemic context.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

Critical knowledge of the sociopolitical context in which the development of the criminal investigation and criminalistic takes place;

Understanding the manifestation of contemporary forms of crime and criminal investigation;

Understanding the criminal investigation cycle, namely in terms of understanding its conceptual context, its actors, mechanisms and operating principles;

Understand, from a perspective of historical evolution, the importance and development of the evidence activity;

Understanding the criminal investigation activity in the complex exchange process between Law, Technique and Science.

 

  

Learning outcomes and competences

At the end of this curricular unit, the students should:

Define and understand the criminal and criminalistic investigation method as well as the system where they develop;

Identify the institutions, entities, agents, processes and mechanisms underneath the criminal investigation;

Know how to critically analyze the criminal investigation activity in the Law, Technique and Science process.

  

Working method

Presencial

Program

I- The Criminal Investigation and Criminalistic (conceptual notions)

II- Criminal investigation in a systemic context

III- The Actors of the System

IV- The system's operating mechanism and its different phases

V - Criminal information’s Management

VI - Evidence as a central object of the investigation: historical evolution of proof, nature and typology, science and technology in the production of evidence

VII - The intellectual activity of criminal investigation: methodologies and types of reasoning

 

  

Mandatory literature

Antunes, M. A. Ferreira; Técnicas de Investigação Criminal, in Boletim do Ministério da Justiça, n.º. 338. Lisboa, pp. 7-44, 1984
Antunes, M. A. Ferreira; Investigação Criminal – uma perspetiva introdutória, in Policia e Justiça, Escola de Polícia Judiciária, Loures, pp. 4-8, 1985
Braz José; Investigação criminal. ISBN: 978-972-40-4350-0
Braz, José; Ciência, Tecnologia, e Investigação Criminal, Almedina, 2015. ISBN: 9789724059723
Gilbert, James; Criminal investigation, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 2001
Leal, José; Epistemologia para a prática da investigação criminal, in Estudos Comemorativos dos 20 Anos da FDUP, Vol. I, organização Helena Mota e outros , Almedina, pp. 815-836, 2017. ISBN: 978-972-40-7318-7
Sánchez, Jesús I. Fernández; Investigación criminal, Editorial Bosch, Barcelona, 2009
Palma, Maria Fernanda; Direito da investigação criminal e da prova, Almedina, 2014
Olivier Ribaux; POLICE SCIENTIFIQUE, Le renseignement par la trace, Press polytechniques et universitaires, 2014. ISBN: 978-2-88915-061-8

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical -practical classes, combining the presentation of the syllabus with the analysis and discussion of the literature and case studies selected by the teacher and previously prepared by students.

Evaluation: final exam.

 

  

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	100,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Frequência das aulas	0,00
Total:	0,00

Eligibility for exams

Not applicable.

Calculation formula of final grade

 According to the general regulation.

 

 

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

According to the general regulation.

Classification improvement

According to the general regulation.