Developmental Criminology

Code:

C411

Acronym:

CD

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Criminology

Instance: 2011/2012 - 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	4	-	4	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

- To provide an introduction to the field of developmental criminology, its main concepts, theories, empirical studies and methods.
- To provide an integrated perspective to the main contributes of developmental criminology for crime prevention

Program

I-Introduction

II-Key concepts and key issues

III-Methods and methodological issues

IV – Research and theoretical integration

V Developmental Criminology and crime prevention-

Teaching methods and learning activities

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

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Observations

Farrington (2002). Developmental Criminology. In M. Maguire et al. (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Criminology. Oxford University Press / Books.
Farrington, D. (2003). Developmental and life-course criminology: key theoretical and empirical issues – The 20002 Sutherland Award Address. Criminology, 41 (2), 221-256.
Farrington, D. (Ed.) (2005). Integrated developmental & life-course theories of offending. New Brunswick : Transaction Publishers,
Farrington, D. (2009). Drawing conclusions about causes from systematic reviews of risk factors: The Cambridge Quality Checklists. Journal of Experimental. Criminology, 5, 1-23.
Leblanc, M. (2003). La conduite délinquante des adolescents: son développement et son explication. In M. Leblanc et al., Traité de Criminologie empirique. Montréal: Les Presses de L’Université de Montréal.
Moffitt, T. (1993). Adolescence-limited and life-course-persistent antisocial behavior: a developmental taxonomy. Psychological Review, 100 (4), 674-701.
Sampson, R. & Laub (1992). Crime and deviance in the life course. Annual Review of Sociology, 18, 63-84
Sampson, R (2005) Developmental criminology and its discontents : trajectories of crime from childhood to old age / ed. lit. Robert J.
Thornberry (1996) Developmental theories of crime and delinquency
Tremblay, R. (2005). Developmental origins of aggression / . Willard W. Hartup, John Archer
Tremblay, Richard (2009). Development and prevention of behaviour problems : from genes to social policy / Hove: Psychology Press.
Wikstrom, O-P, Sampson, R (2009). The Explanation of Crime: Context, Mechanisms and Development (Pathways in Crime) Cambridge University Press.