History of Criminology

Code:

C100

Acronym:

HISTC

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Criminology

Instance: 2013/2014 - 2S (since 17-02-2014 to 23-05-2014)

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	83	Oficial Study Plan LC	1	-	6	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The purpose of this course is to provide an historical and interdisciplinary perspective of the emergence and evolution of thinking about crime and deviance in Europe and North America. It will focus on the main aspects of the history of practices and theoretical conceptions about crime, deviance, criminal justice and punishment from the mid-eighteenth to the late nineteenth century.

Learning outcomes and competences

Students should be able to identify historical analysis in criminology and pinpoint the main stages of the scientific development of this field of knowledge. They shpuld also be aware of the complexity of giving an historical account of criminology.

Working method

Presencial

Program

I - Methods for an historical analysis II - Emergence and evolution of theoretical systems: Classical School; Cartographic School; prisons reform; Phrenology; Psichiatry; Morel; School of Criminal Anthropology; Social Defense School. III - The evolution of criminal thought and its relationship with History of general scientific thought IV - European, North-American and Portuguese criminology: an historical overview.

Mandatory literature

Agra Cândido da 1948-; Science, maladie mentale et dispositifs de l.enfance
Agra Cândido da 1948-; Elementos para uma epistemologia da criminologia
Agra Cândido da 300 1948-; A^criminologia. ISBN: 978-989-8265-88-3
Mucchielli Laurent 1968-; Histoire de la criminologie française. ISBN: 2-7384-3136-4
Beccaria Cesare; Dos delitos e das penas. ISBN: 972-31-0816-X
Beirne Piers; Inventing criminology. ISBN: 0-7914-1276-8
Bentham Jeremy 1748-1832; Traducção das obras politicas do sabio jurisconsulto Jeremias Bentham...
Debuyst Christian 070; Histoire des savoirs sur le crime & la peine. ISBN: 2-8041-1966-1
Foucault Michel 1926-1984 080; Eu, Pierre Rivière, que degolei a minha mãe, a minha irmã e o meu irmão.... ISBN: 972-710-168-2
Garofalo Raffaele 1851-1934; Criminologia
Rafter Nicole 340; The^origins of criminology. ISBN: 978-0-415-45112-3
Lombroso Cesare 1836-1909; L.homme criminel

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical sessions are used to describe and discuss the main contents of the program. Training sessions are orientated toward the analysis and discussion of scientific literature and other resources previously prepared by the students.

keywords

Social sciences > Criminology
Humanities > History > History of social sciences

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	60,00
Trabalho escrito	40,00
Total:	100,00

Eligibility for exams

See general rules

Calculation formula of final grade

Assignement: 40%. Exame: 60%

Classification improvement

See general rules

Observations

Bibliography: - Beccaria, C. (1998). Dos delitos e das penas. (trad. José de Faria Costa). Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. - Bentham, J. (1822). Tradução das obras politicas do sábio jurisconsulto Jeremias Bentham. Imprensa Nacional. - Debuyst, Ch. (1975), Les nouveaux courants dans la Criminologie contemporaine, in Révue de Droit Pénal et Criminologie, n.º 10, 845-869 - Debuyst, Ch., Digneffe, F., Labadie, J.-M., Pires, A. (1995). Histoire des savoirs sur le crime & la peine. 1. Des savoirs diffus à la notion de criminel-né. Bruxelles, Montréal, Ottawa : De Boeck Université. - Debuyst, Ch., Digneffe, F., Pires, A. (1998). Histoire des savoirs sur le crime & la peine. 2. La rationalité pénale et la naissance de la criminologie. Bruxelles, Montréal, Ottawa : De Boeck Université. - Fatela, João (1989). O sangue e a rua: elementos para uma antropologia da violência em Portugal (1926-1946). Lisboa: Publicações: Dom Quixote ISBN 972-20-0677-0 - Foucault, M. (1975). Surveiller et punir. Paris:Gallimard - Foucault, M. (1997). Eu, Pierre Rivière que degolei a minha mãe, a minha irmã e o meu irmão...: um caso de parricídio no século XIX (1997). Lisboa: Terramar. - Garland, D. (1994), Of crimes and criminals: the development of Criminology in Britain. In: Mike Maguire, Rod Morgan e Robert Reiner (eds.), The Oxford Hanbook of Criminology. Oxford: Clarendon Press, (17-68) ISBN 0-19-876241-0 - Michalwoski, R.J. (1977), Perspective and paradigm. Structuring criminological thought, in Robert F. Meier (ed.), Theory in Criminology. Contemporary views. London: Sage Publications - Sutherland, E, Cressey, D. R. e Luckenbill, D.F. (1934), Principles of Criminology. Oxford: General Hall ISBN 0-930390-69-5 - Tulkens, F. (1988). Généalogie de la défense sociale en Belgique (1880-1914).Travaux du séminaire qui s’est tenu a l’Université Catholique de Louvain 1981, (dir.) Michel Foucault. Bruxelles: Story- Scientia.