Security and Criminal Policies

Code:

MC115

Acronym:

SPC

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Legal Sciences

Instance: 2010/2011 - 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
MC	38	Plano Oficial de MC - 2010	1	-	4	36

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

- To understand core concepts of security and crime policy;
- To develop skills in critical analysis through engagement with the academic literature on crime and security policy;
- To develop an appreciation of the relationship between security and liberty, considered through the medium of counter-terrorism strategy and techniques;
- To develop awareness of the global circulation of criminal justice, policing and security policies, including current trends in policy-transfer and commodification;
- To examine security and crime policy within the wider analytical framework of comparative criminal justice.

Program

PART I (Prof. Doutor Amadeu Recasens)

1. Public security policies and their roles in modern criminology
2. “Glocal” security: global, local, State and Private stakeholders
3. Public policies actors-

PART II (Prof. Doutor Conor O’Reilly)
- The Global Travels of Crime & Security Policies;
- Security Policy & Counter-Terrorism;
- Comparative Criminal Justice.
*These classes will be supplemented by a series of guest lectures from Visiting Professors on April 13, 2011 (17h00-21h00) – further details to be provided in advance.

PART III (Prof. Doutora Luísa Neto)
Privacy: new contexts and new challenges
1. Privacy: new contexts and new challenges

2. From privacy to genetic intimacy
3. Privacy and physical integrity

4. Privacy and physical integrity II (the right to refuse medical treatment)

5. Privacy and data protection
6. Privacy and special statutes (people detained)

keywords

Social sciences > Juridical sciences > Criminal law
Social sciences > Juridical sciences > Public law > Constitutional law

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	32,50
	Total:	-	0,00