Sciences of Deviante Behaviour I
C106 - ECTS
The program aims to introduce i) the concepts of “deviance”, “normal and pathological” and the sciences of deviant behaviour; ii) the application of biological and psychological knowledge to the understanding of deviant/delinquent behaviour.
Criminal Law I
C104 - ECTS
General understanding of Criminal Law and doctrine of crime
Introduction to Criminology
C101 - ECTS
The main purpose of this course is to introduce to the structure, systems and function of the criminological thinking. In that sense, the course aims to:
- Develop a first interdisciplinary and integrated perspective of the criminological field (epistemological, theoretical and methodological levels).
- Provide an overview of the fundamental and applied contemporary criminology.
- Identify the main principles of theoretical paradigms and their implications to criminological research
- Provide an understanding of the process of scientific research and methodological thinking
- Provide an overview of the relation between criminology and criminal justice system
- Identify major questions in the criminological interventions
- Develop the skills required to research and systematize information relevant to criminology.
Introduction to Law
C103 - ECTS
The aim of this discipline is to provide the students with the basic frameworks of the legal system.
It is meant to see Law as a body in motion and not an estatic one, so it is given major relevance to the methodological issues.
Quantitative Methods
C109 - ECTS
The program is meant to give an introduction to the formal thinking applied to social themes and problems, especially those related with crime and criminal justice. The students must be able to acquire training in reading and understand scientific works carried out in the quantitative Criminology domain.
Sciences of Deviant Behaviour II
C107 - ECTS
This course aims to provide:
- An overview of the main sociological perspectives.
- An understanding of the main sociological approaches of deviance and societal reaction.
Experimental Criminology
C102 - ECTS
- To acquire the fundamental knowledge about Crime and Justice produced in the last 20 years by a new research area in Criminology, designated from 1999, as “Experimental Criminology”.
Criminal Law II
C105 - ECTS
General understanding of Criminal Law and doctrine of crime
Applied Statistics I
C108 - ECTS
This course intends to give students a very good background in statistical methods in order to support research on criminology.
Specifically, we want that students in the end of this course:
1. Be conscientious about the importance of statistical methods in criminology applied research;
2. Be able to recognize which specific statistical measure or procedure should be applied to specific problems of research;
3. Be able to work with statistical software packages (especially SPSS software).
History of Criminology
C100 - ECTS
The purpose of this course is to provide an historical and interdisciplinary perspective of the emergence and evolution of thinking about crime and deviance in Europe and North America. It will focus on the main aspects of the history of practices and theoretical conceptions about crime, deviance, criminal justice and punishment from the mid-eighteenth to the late nineteenth century.
Criminal Procedural Law I
C206 - ECTS
Provide students with the essential framework of the material, including the theoretical and dogmatic foundations of the various institutes, and to provide a detailed analysis of Portuguese law.
It is hoped that the combination of theoretical and practical classes will provide the students with a complete and harmonious training to help them in their future professional careers.
Drugs and Criminal Issues
C204 - ECTS
Knowing, in theoretical and empirical levels:
1. Drugs as a social problem in its multiple dimensions, namely the social implications of use and traffic
2. Classifications, typologies and effects of main psychoactive substances
3. Evolution and current configuration of drug Laws, at the national and international level. The impact of laws on behaviours
4. Drug-crime relation and its conceptual models
5. Methodologies and major results of empirical studies on social experimentation
Applied Statistics II
C208 - ECTS
This course complements the statistical background initiated with Applied Statistics I. Specifically, we want that students in the end of this course:
1. Be able to conduct a quantitative exploratory analysis of data in order to explain criminal phenomena
2. Dominate the use of statistical techniques in social sciences and specifically in criminology.
3. Be able to explore quantitative associations between studied variables and to identify causality relationships.
4. Be able to work with statistical software packages (specially SPSS software)
Security Issues I
C202 - ECTS
- To understand the multi-dimensional concept of security and how it is applied both within criminological discourse and across other academic disciplines;
- To develop skills in critical analysis and theoretical engagement with the academic literature on security issues;
- To examine the links between crime and insecurity within contemporary society, analysing its multiple dimensions, meanings and implications;
- To understand theoretical approaches regarding crime and insecurity, examining empirical research on subjective and objective components of insecurity;
- To comprehend the principal mechanisms applied to measure crime and insecurity;
- To appreciate trends in commodification of security as well as the evolving market for both security providers and security technologies;
- To develop an appreciation of the relationship between security and liberty, considered through the medium of counter-terrorism strategy and techniques;
- To clarify debates about governing security, the increasingly pluralised security terrain and the distinction and the overlaps between public policing, private security and civil security initiatives.
Social Control Systems
C200 - ECTS
- Understanding and distinguishing different kinds of normativities, as well as the processes underlying its evolution
- Understanding concepts and theories of social control
- Understanding the processes of criminalization in its relationship with the functioning of social control instances
- Viewing the criminal phenomenon through the processes of regulation and governance
Clinic Criminology
C205 - ECTS
The program aims to introduce i) the emergency conditions of clinic criminology, theories and concepts, methods, themes and intervention fields; ii) the applications of the clinic method in the criminological praxis and the process and dynamics of the psychological assessment; iii) the different methods and techniques of psychological assessment and its scientific basis; iv) limits and implications of clinical criminology and ethical and deontological issues.
Juvenile Delinquency and Juvenile Justice
C203 - ECTS
The program aims to: (1) develop an integrated approach about the nature and social consequences of juvenile delinquency and about the formal social reactions to the phenomenon; (2) introduce the theories explaining anti-social and delinquent behaviour of youth; (3) introduce the evolution of the juvenile justice system, in particular the legal rules concerning youth delinquents, its main guidelines and consequences for the institutional apparatus and social reaction practices.
Criminal Procedural Law II
Qualitative Methods
C209 - ECTS
Objectivos:
Perspectivar historicamente a emergência e desenvolvimento da investigação qualitativa e de enquadrar as questões e os paradigmas epistemológicos e teóricos que a estruturam;
Conhecer as lógicas e estratégias que estruturam a investigação qualitativa, as etapas do processo de pesquisa e a sua respectiva natureza e dinâmica;
Domínio do processo de investigação qualitativa, designadamente a ligação entre questões, metodologias e métodos, técnicas e procedimentos.
Conhecer a aplicação dos métodos qualitativos no campo da investigação sobre o fenómeno criminal e a desviância, respectivo enquadramento teórico, relevância e desenvolvimentos.
Conhecer os métodos de observação, entrevista e análise documental no estudo das diferentes dimensões do fenómeno criminal.
Conhecer os métodos de análise de dados qualitativos e as técnicas de análise de conteúdo.
Competências e resultados de aprendizagem:
Adquirir as competências necessárias à análise e discussão dos diferentes tipos de dados e técnicas de análise qualitativos em Criminologia.
Adquirir os conhecimentos e as competências metodológicas e técnicas básicas necessárias à concepção e operacionalização de um projecto de investigação qualitativa.
Victimology I
C201 - ECTS
- Analyze the emergency of victimology as an area of scientific knowledge and its place regarding criminology.
- Analyze the victim while object of study and knowledge: different classifications, typologies and definitions.
- Reflect about the role of the victim in the crime that makes it as such.
- To know and to integrate the historic-theoretic evolution of victimology and the main psychosocial and criminological lines of thought that explain violence.
- To understand and to integrate the experience of the victimization, its dynamics and consequences from the results of the produced empirical investigation in this field.
- To know the different types of violence, crime, victimization, as well as the methods of study of the victim and victimization.
- To understand and to analyze critically on the position of the victim in the system of criminal justice, its rights and necessities, fitting it in the national and international legal-political developments produced in this domain.
Epistemology of Criminology
C304 - ECTS
- Criminology as field of theory and practice; its relationships with other disciplines of knowledge, namely human and social sciences.
- To place criminological thinking at the heart of the transformations in the systems of thought
- To know major epistemological traditions and being able to develop epistemological analytical grids, applying them when approaching the criminal phenomenon
- To consider research methods and intervention practices in an epistemological way
Intervention Models in Criminology I
C302 - ECTS
Consolidate and deepen the knowledge about the different intervention modes in young and adult delinquents, already introduced in other subjects.
Focus critically on the evolution of rationality and on the models of intervention in delinquents within criminal policies and philosophies.
To know the different contexts of intervention in delinquents and the major needs arisen.
To know the programs, treatment and rehabilitation techniques most used in the different contexts of intervention as well as the results of assessments studies undertaken.
Safety Issues II
C300 - ECTS
- To recognise how forces of globalization must be incorporated into criminological theory and practice;
- To understand the formative processes of global prohibition regimes examining case-studies in international criminalization;
- To develop critical analysis regarding global insecurity discourse and how this shapes the transnational crime control agenda;
- To appreciate the complex interaction between the ‘global’ and the ‘local’ as regards crime and crime control;
- To comprehend the relationship between security and global mobility;
- To develop an appreciation of trends towards policy-transfer and commodification within the transnational policing community;
- To demonstrate theoretical engagement with a cross-disciplinary literature on global crime and crime control;
- To critically evaluate current trends within transnational policing and develop awareness of their implications for human rights and security inequalities.
Penitentiary Sistems
C305 - ECTS
- To point out the rise and evolution of prison in the picture of the evolution of the social systems, the penal philosophies, the knowledge about crime and sentences and the systems of social control in the occidental countries.
- To analyze the functions, purpose and criminal effectiveness of the punishment by confinement and penal sanctions and measures and frame the penitentiary policies in the frame of the criminal politics.
- Analyze the prison and the punishment by confinement in Portugal.
- Specificities of the inmate population: to know the effects of prison and ways of adaptation to prison
- Consider the alternative sentences to prison, the specific groups of delinquents subject of application and its effect.
Victimology II
C301 - ECTS
- 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).
Forensic Sciences I
C308 - ECTS
-Conhecer as diferentes áreas que compõem as ciências forenses e os seus campos de aplicação.
- Adquirir conhecimentos básicos sobre semiologia médico-legal e sobre as várias vertentes de actuação da medicina legal e de outras ciências forenses, no que se refere à sua abrangência, objectivos e competências.
-Articulação, a propósito de questões específicas, dos domínios da Criminologia, do Direito e das Ciências Forenses.
Forensic Sciences II
C309 - ECTS
- Enquadrar as relações entre ciências do comportamento e o direito, especialmente as que se consubstanciam na disciplina “psicologia forense”
- Enquadrar legalmente a avaliação psicológica em contexto forense
- Conhecer os métodos, técnicas e instrumentos de avaliação psicológica e de avaliação do risco em contexto forense
- Conhecer as especificidades de avaliação psicológica em processos penais e tutelares educativos
- Ser capaz de reflectir sobre as implicações legais, éticas e deontológicas da avaliação psicológica em contexto forense
- Conhecer os quadros nosológicos prevalecentes em psiquiatria forense
Special Criminal Law
C307 - ECTS
O ensino da cadeira de Direito Penal Especial (Consequências Jurídicas do Crime) compreende aulas teóricas e práticas. As primeiras pretendem, no cumprimento do programa abaixo descrito, fornecer aos estudantes os quadros essenciais da matéria, aí incluídos os fundamentos teóricos e dogmáticos dos vários institutos e, bem assim, análise pormenorizada do Direito positivo português.
Por outro lado, as aulas práticas compreendem, além de revisões e esclarecimentos respeitantes à matéria leccionada nas aulas teóricas, a cuidada aplicação dos conhecimentos na solução de casos concretos. Da combinação entre aulas teóricas e práticas pretende-se que resulte numa completa e harmoniosa formação dos estudantes com vista à sua futura inserção nas diversas carreiras jurídicas.
Intervention Moldels in Criminology II
C303 - ECTS
To know the developments of community policies and its strategies incorporating them and analyzing them in the context of social, political and ideological outlook transformations
To be able to identify and characterize the main models of community prevention of crime and fear of crime and to know the conditions of its implementation and evaluation
To know the current discussions on community strategies for the prevention of crime and fear of crime
Have knowledge that enables the development of an approach on the relationship between policy and practice in the prevention of crime and fear of crime.
Criminal Policies, Justice and Fundamental Rights
C310 - ECTS
- Compreender a noção de política criminal nas suas diferentes dimensões.
- Possuir uma perspectiva histórica e analítica das políticas criminais e conhecer as suas implicações sociais.
- Perspectivar de modo integrado e crítico o sistema de justiça penal no quadro das tendências de política criminal nas sociedades ocidentais.
- Familiarizar-se com as problemáticas que atravessam as instituições e dispositivos que intervêm sobre o comportamento desviante e sobre a delinquência, e desenvolver grelhas de análise que articulem de modo integrado e reflexivo as diferentes dimensões do seu funcionamento.
- Compreender as íntimas conexões entre os direitos fundamentais e o sistema de justiça criminal, em especial sensibilizando os estudantes para a compatibilização entre vários desideratos antinómicos existentes.
Developmental Criminology
C411 - ECTS
- Delimitar o campo da criminologia desenvolvimental, a sua lógica, objectivos e principais métodos
- Conhecer os principais estudos empíricos no âmbito da criminologia desenvolvimental
- Conhecer as principais teorias integradoras dos resultados da investigação empírica no campo da criminologia desenvolvimental
- Conhecer as implicações da criminologia desenvolvimental ao nível da prevenção da delinquência
Practical Training
Police Models
C412 - ECTS
- To understand core concepts of police and policing in a broad cultural and social perspective;
- To develop skills in critical analysis through engagement with the academic literature on models of policing;
- To examine the evolution of policing models from both an historical and a comparative perspective;
- To develop awareness of the different forms, constructions, functions and purposes of policing across diverse local, national and transnational contexts;
Interdisciplinary Seminar
Organised Crime and Economic Criminality
C405 - ECTS
- To understand core concepts of organized crime and economic crime and their application within criminological discourse;
- To develop skills in critical analysis through engagement with the academic literature on organized crime and economic crime;
- To develop understanding of economic approaches to research into organized crime and white-collar crime;
- To appreciate the links between theories of the state and theories of organized crime and of white-collar crime;
- To develop awareness of criminal justice policies and policing strategies targeting organized crime and economic crime;
- To examine specific examples of organized crime and economic crime in foreign contexts and also within Portugal;
- To appreciate the complex interaction between the ‘local’ and the ‘global’ regarding (transnational) organized crime;
-To understand the white-collar crime specificities in relation to other types of crime.
Criminal Investigation and Criminalistics
Restorative Justice and Mediation
Integration Seminar