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.

C104 - ECTS

General understanding of Criminal Law and doctrine of crime

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.

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.

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.

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.

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”.

C105 - ECTS

General understanding of Criminal Law and doctrine of crime

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).

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.

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.

C206 - ECTS

 

 To provide students with the essential frameworks of the discipline,  there included the theoretical and the various institutes, as well as detailed analysis of positive law Portuguese. The combination of theoretical and practical lessons intended to bring about a complete and harmonious education of students with a view to their future inclusion in the various careers.

 

To provide students with the essential frameworks of the discipline,  there included the theoretical and the various institutes, as well as detailed analysis of positive law Portuguese. The combination of theoretical and practical lessons intended to bring about a complete and harmonious education of students with a view to their future inclusion in the various careers.

 

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

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)

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

C205 - ECTS

The program aims to introduce i) the emergency conditions of clinical criminology, theories and concepts, methods, themes and intervention fields; ii) the applications of the clinical 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.

C207 - 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 legal careers.

C209 - ECTS

C202 - ECTS

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.

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

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.

C300 - ECTS

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.

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).

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.

C309 - ECTS

- Framing the relationship between behavioral sciences and law, especially those that embody the discipline "forensic psychology"; - Know methods, techniques and tools for psychological evaluation and risk assessment in forensic settings; - Knowing specificities of psychological assessment in criminal and juvenile delinquency justice systems; - Being able to reflect on the legal, ethical and professional conduct in forensic settings; knowing main nosological diseases in forensic psychiatry

C307 - ECTS

C303 - ECTS

To know the developments of community and rehabilitation 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 to know the conditions of its implementation and evaluation. To be able to identify and characterize the main models of specific offenders rehabilitation and to know the conditions of its implementation and evaluation

C310 - ECTS

1. Provide students with the basic concepts and frameworks for proper comprehension of political relations between criminal justice and fundamental rights

2. It is intended that students acquire knowledge in the field of essential functions, including the theoretical and dogmatic as well as analysis of the system of fundamental rights in positive law and the Portuguese international system of human rights.

3. Introduction to the concept of "fundamental rights" under the theory of the Constitution, which encompass an analysis of constitutionalism Portuguese.

 4. Understanding the specific dynamics and critical reflection on the major trends in relation to the criminal policies from the point of view of respect or disrespect for fundamental rights.

5. Reflect in more detail on the key debates and critical approaches in relation to some particular criminal policies.

C411 - ECTS - To provide an introduction to the field of developmental criminology, its main concepts, theories, empirical studies and methods.
- To provide an integrated perspective to the main contributes of developmental criminology for crime prevention

C400 - ECTS

C412 - ECTS

C401 - ECTS

The analysis by the student of a criminological topic based on the theoretical and empirical knowledge developed by the scientific community-

- The possibility of developing a theme related to the stage, enables the reflective dialogue between scientific knowledge and professional contextes and practice.

 

 

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.

C413 - ECTS

C404 - ECTS

The course aims to provide the core knowledge about:

- The principles and objectives of restorative justice, its emergency conditions, models and nationally and internationally developments.

- The emergence and development of mediation as an alternative means for settling conflicts, the main principles, objectives, models and application contexts.

- The victim-offender mediation within the  restorative justice paradigm (models, application contexts, legal and institutional framework)

- Empirical research on the practices of restorative justice, namely the evaluative research results;

- The mediation process

- The key debates and critical approaches to restorative justice and mediation

 

The course also aims to provide students the opportunity to develop essential mediation skills

C403 - ECTS - The seminar aims the development and integration of the theoretical and empirical skills and knowledge around acquired throughout the studies cycle.