Criminal Procedure and Criminology Themes

Code:

MD143

Acronym:

TPPC

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Law

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

Active?	Yes
Course/CS Responsible:	Law

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MD	23	Plano Oficial do ano letivo 2024	1	-	7,5	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Criminal Procedural Themes:

- Provide an overview of current doctrine on specific and controversial topics of criminal evidence;
- Deepen the theoretical and dogmatic bases of the studied institutes, as well as their projections in terms of legal regulation and jurisprudential solutions;
- Promote autonomous and critical reflection on central problems of the criminal procedure.


Criminology themes:

Studying the current status of the discipline, in its fundamental and applied fields; identifying the main propositions of nowadays’ theoretical paradigms and its implications on the level of criminological investigation.
Knowing some of the specific objects of criminological knowledge and investigation, namely “white-collar crime”, the victim or fear of crime.

Learning outcomes and competences

Criminal procedural themes:

Students should be able to:
- have a grounded knowledge of current doctrine on the evidence topics studied;
- discuss critically the legal and jurisprudencial solutions to the central problems of criminal procedure.


Criminology themes:

Students should be able to:
- know the current state of Criminology;
- identify and reason about theoretical paradigmes of curent Criminology;
- identify and reason about main issues on criminological research, separating it from judicial investigation.

Working method

Presencial

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

does not apply

Program

Criminal Procedural Themes:

1. General framework: evidence and truth; legality of evidence and atypical means; analytical decomposition of the evidence procedure.
2. Exclusionary rules and Beweisverbote; the fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine and its exceptions; evidence unlawfully obtained by individuals.
3. The accused as a source of evidence and the principle "nemo tenetur se ipsum accusare": the right to silence; the probatory value of statements by the accused and the co-defendant; projections of the right not to self-incrimination in other means of proof and obtaining evidence (examinations, searches and expertise; determination of genetic profile; lineup identification; reconstitution of the fact; taking of autographs and comparison of handwriting; delivery of documents and coercive disclosure of passwords).   
4. The challenges of electronic evidence: the means of proof in the digital environment versus the traditional means of investigation; computer searches, seizure of computer data, seizure of e-mail and other telecommunications intrusions, environmental wiretapping, undercover agents wistleblowers, the use of malware in criminal investigation.
5. The transnational circulation of evidence: the transnational criminality; the international judicial cooperation and in the space of the European Union; the EIO.


Criminology themes:

A. Introduction to the study of Criminology
B. historical developmens
C. and current theories: bio(socio)logical;personaliy and sociological theories, labelling and social control.
D. Some current criminological topics.

Mandatory literature

Andrade Manuel da Costa 1944-; Sobre as proibições de prova em processo penal. ISBN: 972-32-0613-7
Andrade Manuel da Costa 1944-; Bruscamente, no verão passado, a reforma do Código de Processo Penal. ISBN: 978-972-32-1726-1
Seiça António Alberto Medina de 1967-; O^conhecimento probatório do co-arguido. ISBN: 972-32-0901-2
Seiça António Alberto Medina de 1967-; Legalidade da prova e reconhecimentos atípicos em processo penal
Silva Sandra Oliveira e 1977-; Legalidade da prova e provas proibidas
Silva, Sandra Oliveira e; A liberdade contra a autoincriminação no processo penal: breves considerações em torno do princípio “nemo tenetur se ipsum accusare”, 2016 (http://www.amprs.com.br/public/arquivos/revista_artigo/arquivo_1504551588.pdf)
Silva Sandra Oliveira e 1977-; O^arguido como meio de prova contra si mesmo
David Silva Ramalho; Métodos ocultos de investigação criminal em ambiente digital. ISBN: 978-972-40-7000-1
António Gama; Comentário judiciário do Código de Processo Penal. ISBN: 978-972-40-7742-0
Cruz, José Manuel Neves; Infracções Económicas e Financeiras. ISBN: 978-972-32-2170-1
Walklate, Sandra; Handbook of victims and victimology. ISBN: 978-1-84392-257-5
Cusson, Maurice; Criminologia. ISBN: 978-972-46-1620-9
McLaughlin, Eugene; The sage dictionary of criminology. ISBN: 0-7619-5908-4
Maguire, Mike; The Oxford handbook of criminology. ISBN: 0-19-876241-0

Complementary Bibliography

Albuquerque Paulo Sérgio Pinto de 212; Comentário do código de processo penal à luz da constituição da república e da convenção eur. ISBN: 978-972-54-0295-5
Van Erp, J., Huisman, W. & Walle, G.V.; The Routledge Handbook of White-Collar and Corporate Crime in Europe, Routledge, 2015

Comments from the literature

With regard to each of the specific topics, further bibliography will be indicated.

Teaching methods and learning activities

The teaching will consist on theoretical-practical classes, combining the presentation of the programme with analysis and discussion of the main perspectives for each theme.

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)
Estudo autónomo	100,00
Frequência das aulas	45,00
Trabalho de investigação	65,00
Total:	210,00

Eligibility for exams

The evaluation will consist on a final written exam.

Calculation formula of final grade

Final written exam: 100%

Examinations or Special Assignments

does not apply

Internship work/project

does not apply

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

does not apply

Classification improvement

according to general rules