Epistemology of Criminology

Code:

C304

Acronym:

EPISTC

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	0	Oficial Study Plan LC	3	-	6	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

- 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 to be able to develop epistemological analytical grids, applying them when approaching the criminal phenomenon
- To consider research methods and intervention practices in an epistemological way

Program

1. General features of the scientific thought
2. The division and classification of sciences. The place of criminology within Science and its scientific status
3. Positivism, Rationalism and Constructivism in Criminology
4. The criminological thought: describing, explaining, understanding and interpreting
5. Criminological Functionalism, Structuralism and Historicism
6. Actual “episteme” and Criminology
7. Epistemology and its relationship with research methods and intervention practices

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Observations

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