Code: | C201 | Acronym: | VIT I |
Keywords | |
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Classification | Keyword |
OFICIAL | Criminology |
Active? | Yes |
Course/CS Responsible: | Criminology |
Acronym | No. of Students | Study Plan | Curricular Years | Credits UCN | Credits ECTS | Contact hours | Total Time |
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C | 58 | Oficial Study Plan LC | 2 | - | 6 | - |
- Analyze the emergency of victimology as an area of scientific knowledge and its place regarding criminology.
- Analyze the victim while object of study and knowledge: different classifications, typologies and definitions.
- Reflect about the role of the victim in the crime that makes it as such.
- To know and to integrate the historic-theoretic evolution of victimology and the main psychosocial and criminological lines of thought that explain violence.
- To understand and to integrate the experience of the victimization, its dynamics and consequences from the results of the produced empirical investigation in this field. - To know the different types of violence, crime, victimization, as well as the methods of study of the victim and victimization.
- To understand and to analyze critically on the position of the victim in the system of criminal justice, its rights and necessities, fitting it in the national and international legal-political developments produced in this domain.
Students are expected to learn and reflect upon major subjects, theories and concepts in Victimology
Part One: The victimology: origins and orientations of the discipline
1. Emergence of the victim as an object of study . First approach to the concept of victim and victimization.
2. Emergence of victimology as a discipline of knowledge History and evolution. Main theories.
3. Concept and characteristics of victimology: a) Relations of victimology and other sciences; b) Types of victimology
4. Guidelines and current debates in victimology.
Part Two: Fundamental concepts in victimology
1. The victim: a) Types of victim; b) Social representations of the victim;
2. Victimization: a) Sources and factors of victimization; b) kinds of victimization c) Experience and dynamics of victimization.
3. The relationship between victim and offender
4. The prevention of victimization: a) Victimological prevention; b) Models of prevention.
5. Emptirical annalysis of victim and victimization: a) dark figure and invisible crimes; victimization surveys.
6. Victimisation and Human Rights: Femenine Genital Mutilation and Forced Marriages.
Third part: Victim and Justice
1. The rights, support and protection of victims of crime in the criminal justice system in Portugal. Comparative approach to the international situation.
2. The role of Victim Support Organizations
Theoretic-practical lessons, which combine the presentation of the contents with exercises employing the transmitted knowledge.
Designation | Weight (%) |
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Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico | 25,00 |
Exame | 75,00 |
Total: | 100,00 |
Designation | Time (hours) |
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Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico | 0,00 |
Estudo autónomo | 0,00 |
Frequência das aulas | 0,00 |
Total: | 0,00 |
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Distributed Evaluation: The DE is an oral presentation, carried out by small groups of students on one of the selected papers proposed by the teachers. The completion of work is required, and the classification obtained in this component considered when determining the final grade in times “normal” examination and “recurso”. The paper must be presented in class on the stipulated dates.
Evaluation Formula: presentation of selected papers 25%, final exam: 75%.
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