Juvenile Delinquency and Juvenile Justice

Code:

C203

Acronym:

DJJM

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Criminology

Instance: 2007/2008 - 1S

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	32	Oficial Study Plan LC	2	-	6	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

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.

Program

I – Introduction

II. Juvenile Justice
1. Introduction.
2. The evolution of the Portuguese Juvenile Justice system:
- from hygienism to protection
- the welfare regime
- crisis and reform
3. Today’s Portuguese Juvenile Justice system and legal framing of rules concerning youth delinquents: rationality, principles, normative framework, displays and practices.
4. Risk, responsibility and network: comparative and critical analysis of actual trends in European youth justice.


III. Theoretical perspectives on youth delinquency:
1. delinquency and age;
2. theoretical perspectives on youth deviance and delinquency;
3. the developmental approach: risk and protection factors; development trajectories of deviant and delinquent activity;
4. longitudinal and prospective studies.


IV. Intervention models on youth delinquency: an introduction.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical classes are used to describe and discuss the main contents of the program. Practice classes are orientated toward the analysis and discussion of scientific literature and other resources previously prepared by the students.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Observations

Bibliografia

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AGRA C. e CASTRO J. (2007). La justice des mineurs au Portugal : risque, responsabilité et réseau, in F. Bailleau e Y. Cartuyvels (Eds), La justice pénale des mineurs en Europe. Entre modèle welfare et inflexions néoliberales. Paris : L’Harmattan.

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BORN, M. (2005). Psicologia da delinquência. Lisboa: Climepsi.

BRUNELLE, N, COUSINEAU, M-M. E BROCHU, S. (2002). Deviant youth trajectories : adoption, progression and regression of deviant lifestyles, in S. Brochu, C. Agra e M-M. Cousineau, Drugs and Crime Deviant Pathways, Hampshire, Ashgate, pp. 115-135

CARBONNEAU, R. (2003). De la naissance à l’adolescence, in Marc Le Blanc, M. Ouimet e D. Szabo (dirs.), Traité de Criminologie empirique. Québec : Les presses de l’Université de Montréal, p. 335-365

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GERSÃO E., (1994). Menores agentes de infracções – interrogações acerca de velhas e novas respostas, Revista Portuguesa de Ciência Criminal, 4, 2, 241-259.

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