Drugs and Criminal Issues

Code:

C204

Acronym:

DQCR

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Criminology

Instance: 2008/2009 - 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	42	Oficial Study Plan LC	2	-	6	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

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

Program

I- Drugs and drug use
1. Historical evolution and present context of the use and abuse of drugs
2. Drug’s classifications
3. Drugs use: origins, effects and risks
4. Critical review of the basic knowledge
5. Conceptual models:
a) Causal
b) Structural
c) Procedural
6. Intervention methods and strategies:
a) Treatment
b) Harm Reduction
II - legal regulation of drugs
1. international conventions
2. laws and law enforcement
3. Criminalisation and decriminalisation
4. Impact of laws on behaviours
a) psychosocial research
b) comparative research
c) Research on the effect of legal changes
d) Research on coerced treatment
III - Drug-crime relation
1. Drug-crime relation models:
a) Causal
b) Procedural
c) Structural
2. empirical evidence
3. drugs and crime pathways
IV - Social experimentation studies
1. Methodological issues of evaluation programmes
2. Empirical evidence

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical sessions are used to describe and discuss the main contents of the program. Practice sessions 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

Módulo I

Agra, C. (1993). Dizer as drogas, ouvir as drogas. Estudos teóricos e empíricos para uma ciência do comportamento adictivo. Porto: Radicário.
Agra, C. (1995). Da Rapsódia à Sinfonia. Os Modos Elementares do Pensamento sobre as Drogas. Toxicodependências, 1, 3, 47-59.
Angel, P., Richard, D. e Valleur, M. (2002). Toxicomanias. Lisboa: Climepsi Editores.
Bachmann, C. e Coppel, A. (1989). La Drogue dans le Monde. Hier et Aujourd’hui. Paris: Éditions Albin Michel.
Quintas, J. A. (1997). Drogados e Consumos de Drogas: Análise das Representações Sociais. Tese de Mestrado. Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto.

Módulo II

Caballero, F. & Bisiou, Y. (2000). Droit de la Drogue (2ª Ed.). Paris: Éditions Dalloz.
EMCDDA (2002). Prosecution of Drug Users in Europe: Varying Pathways to Similar Objectives. EMCDDA Insights Series nº 5. Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities.
Lourenço Martins, A. (1994). Droga e Direito. Lisboa: Aequitas – Editorial Notícias.
MacCoun, R. (1993). Drugs and the Law: A Psychological Analysis of Drug Prohibition. Psychological Bulletin, 113, 3, 497-512.
Poiares, C. (1996). Análise Psicocriminal das Drogas - O Discurso do Legislador. Tese de Doutoramento. Porto: Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação - Centro de Ciências do Comportamento Desviante.
Presidência da República de Portugal (1998). Droga: Situação e Novas Estratégias. Lisboa: INCM.
Quintas, J. (2006). Regulação legal do Consumo de Drogas: Análise da Experiência Portuguesa da Descriminalização. Tese de Doutoramento em Criminologia. Faculdade de Direito da Universidade do Porto.
Vicente, D. (2003). Problemas Jurídicos da Droga e da Toxicodependência, Vol. I, Suplemento da Revista da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa. Coimbra: Coimbra Editora.

Módulo III

Agra, C. (1998). Entre Droga e Crime. Actores, Espaços, Trajectórias. Lisboa: Editorial Notícias.
Brochu, S. (1995). Drogue & Criminalité. Une Relation Complexe. Montréal: Presses de L’Université de Montréal.
Brochu, S., Agra, C. & Cousineau, M. ( 2002). Drug and Crime Deviant Pathways. Aldershot: Ashgate
Inciardi, J. (1993). Drug Treatment and Criminal Justice, Vol. 27. Newbury Park: Sage Publications.
Tonry, M. & Wilson, J. (1990). Drugs and Crime. Chicago. The University of Chicago Press.

Módulo IV

Aebi M., Comment mesurer la délinquance ? Paris, Armand Colin, 2006.
Rabasa, J. & Killias, M. (1996). Evaluation de L’Impact des Essais Suisses avec Prescription Médicale de Stupéfiants sur la Criminalité des Sujets Traités: Résultats à Court Terme. Bulletin de Criminologie, 2, 63-78.
World Health Organisation (2000). Workbook of Evaluation Programs.