Victimology I

Code:

C201

Acronym:

VIT I

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Criminology

Instance: 2008/2009 - 2S

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	2	-	6	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

- 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.

Program

I- History
1. The ascent of victimology as a knowledge discipline
2. The ascent of victim as an object of study

II- Theories of victimation and empirical evidence
1. Present guidelines and debates in victimology.
2. The methods of empirical study of the victim and criminal victimation.
2.1 The international inquiries of victimation.
2,2 Extension and standards of criminal victimation: incidence, prevalence and risks of victimation; spatial and time standards of victimation; social-demographic characteristics of crime victims.

III- Consequences of victimation.
1. Basic concepts in victimology: victim, types of victim, sources of victimation, social representations of the victim; experience and dynamics of victimation.
2. Primary victimation /secondary victimation.

IV- Victim and justice
1. Development of the victims’ position in the criminal justice and criminology. The victim and its rights in the Portuguese criminal justice system. Comparative look with the international situation.
2. Restorative justice, “reparatory” justice and penal mediation.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretic-practical lessons, which combine the presentation of the contents with exercises employing the transmitted knowledge.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Eligibility for exams

See general rules.

Calculation formula of final grade

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Examinations or Special Assignments

See general rules.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

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Classification improvement

See general rules.

Observations

- Aertsen, Ivo (1996). Vade-Mecum assistance policière aux victimes. Bruxelles: Politeia
- Almeida, C. (2000). Despublicização do direito criminal. Lisboa: AAFDL
- Block, R. (ed.). (198-). Victimization and fear of crime: world perspectives. Chicago: U. S. Department of Justice.
- Fattah, E. (1991). Understanding criminal victimization: an introduction to theoretical victimology. Scarborough: Prentice-Hall Canada Inc. ISBN 0-13-929597-6
- Fattah, E. (1995). La victimologie au Carrefour entre la science et l’idéologie. Revue Internationale de Criminologie et de Police Technique et Scientifique, 2, 131-139.
- Johnstone, G. Van Ness, D. (eds). (2007). Handbook of restorative justice. Devon: Willan Publishing. ISBN 1-84392-151-0
- Lurigio, A., Skogan, W.G., Davis, R. C. (1997). Victims of crime. Problems, policies and programs. Newbury Park: Sage. ISBN 0-7619-0154- X
- Mauby, R. I. & Walklate, S. (1998). Critical victimology. ISBN 0-8039-8511-8
- Parsonage, W. (1979). Perspectives on victimology. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications. (Sage Research Progress Series in Criminology ; 11 ). ISBN 0-8039-1323-0
- Schneider, H. (ed.) (1982). The victim in international perspective. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. ISBN: 3-11-007510-5
- Tonry, Michael. (1996). Crime and justice: a review of research. Chicago: University of Chicago Press ISBN 0-226-80826-2
- Walgrave, L. (2003). La justice restaurative et la perspective des victimes concrètes, in Mylène Jaccoud (dir.), Justice réparatrice et médiation pénale. Convergences ou divergences? Paris: L’Harmattan. ISBN 2-7475-5285-3
- Wemmers, J. (2003). Introduction à la victimologie. Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal. ISBN 2-7606-1873-0
- Zauberman, R. (1990). Les victimes: comportements et attitudes: enquête nationale de victimation ISBN 2-907370-16-2
- Zauberman, R. & Robert, Ph. (1995). Du côté des victimes: un autre regard sur la délinquance. Paris: L’Harmattan, Logiques Sociales. ISBN 2-7384-3971-3