Penitentiary Sistems

Code:

C305

Acronym:

SPEN

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	33	Oficial Study Plan LC	3	-	6	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

- 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.

Program

- The birth and evolution of prison: historical and genealogical approach;
- History of the execution of sentences: objectives, functions, unfinished reforms;
- Prison and the privative penalty of freedom as main penalty, study through its history, its functioning and its disfunctionings;
- The prison models, its space-time evolution and subsequent inquiries about the man, the man in society as well as on the meaning attributed to the infraction;
- General objectives of the penalty, similarities and contradictions according to the models of Stanley, Combessie and Kellens;
- The Beccarian revolution and the prominent place the penalty of privation of freedom occupies from the 19th century onwards;
- Today’s main lines of research on the prison;
- The punishment by confinement: statistical data and general trends; the prison and its relation with crime; the punishment by confinement and the penalties not privative of freedom;
- The punishment by confinement in Portugal and the Portuguese prison system;
- Penitentiary politics: the use of punishment by confinement and the functions of prison in the scheme of criminal politics - evolution and current situation in the occidental societies; models of organization and management of the prison system; democracy and prison;
- Prison as society: sociological and ethnographic studies following Goffman;
- Prison and its actors (sociological profile of the inmates; prison guards and employees and their relation with the inmate population); the mechanisms of adaptation to the prison and the effect of reclusion. Foucault and the disciplinary function of the prison and the model of society that supports it;
- The European recommendations (ONU, CEDH, CEPT) and the view of the inmate (from object to subject);
- The alternatives to the sentence of privation of freedom: effectiveness and evaluation problems;
- Restorative justice: revolution concerning the beginning of the retribution;
- Securitarian trends of the 21st century;
- Specific problematic (drug use, violence, sexual delinquency, ethnic minorities…) e ways of intervention in prison context;
- Criminologic Evaluation in prison context;

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretic-practical lessons, which combine the presentation of the contents with exercises employing the transmitted knowledge. It will be privileged, in the latter, working in smaller groups, focused in the analysis and discussion of scientific texts and other documentary sources prepared by each student beforehand. PL sessions (practical and laboratorial education) aim the development of research and intervention abilities in prison context and will be tutored in the “experimental prison” of the Escola de criminologia. TC time (orientation guardianship) is destined to provide to the students activities of active learning and direct contact with the penitentiary system, namely through visits to prison establishments.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Subject Classes	Participação presencial	0,00
	Total:	-	0,00

Observations

-Beccaria, C. (1991). Des délits et des peines. Paris: Flammarion.

-Blumstein, A. & Cohen, J. (1973). A Theory of the Stability of Punishment. The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 64 (2), 198-207.

-Cavadino, M. & Dignan, J. (2002). The penal system. An introduction. London: Sage Publications.

-Chantraine, G. (2004). Par-delà les murs. Expériences et trajectoires en maison d’arrêt. Paris: PUF.

-Combessie, Ph. (2004). Sociologie de la prison. Paris: Éditions La Découverte.

-Cusson, M. (1999). Pourquoi punir ? Paris: Dalloz.

-Cusson, M. (1990). De l'évolution pénale. Déviance et Société, 14(3), 315-323.

-Dünkel, F. & Snacken, S. (2005). Les prisions en Europe. Paris : L’Harmattan.

-Faugeron, C., Chauvenet, A. & Combessie, Ph. (1996). Approches de la prison. Bruxelles : De Boeck Université .

-Foucault, M. (1982). Vigiar e punir. Petrópolis: Ed. Vozes.

-Goffman, E. (2001). Manicómios, prisões e conventos. São Paulo: Editora Perspectiva S. A.

-Kellens G. (1991). Précis de pénologie et de droit des sanctions pénales. Liège: Collection Scientifique de la Faculté de Droit.

-Kellens, G. (2000). Punir, Pénologie & Droit des sanctions pénales. Editions juridiques de l’Université de Liège.

-Kuhn, A. (2005). Sanctions pénales: est-ce bien la peine? Grolley : L'Hèbe.

-Kuhn, A. (1993). Punitivité, politique criminelle et surpeuplement carcéral; ou comment réduire la population carcérale. Berne: Haupt.

-Kuhn, A. (2000). Détenus: Combiens? Pourquoi, Que faire? Berne: Haupt.

-Lemire, G. (1994). Anatomie de la prison. Montréal : PUM.

-Landreville P. (1988). La surpopulation des prisons: Quelques considérations à partir de la situation canadienne. Déviance et Société, 12(3), 291-296.

-Lazerges C. (1987). La politique criminelle. Que sais-je ? Paris: PUF.