Safety Issues II

Code:

C300

Acronym:

QSEG I

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Criminology

Instance: 2023/2024 - 1S (since 11-09-2023 to 15-12-2023)

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	51	Oficial Study Plan LC 2023	3	-	6	-
		Oficial Study Plan LC	3	-	6	-
		Oficial Study Plan LC	3	-	6	-
		Oficial Study Plan LC 2023	3	-	6	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

In a logical continuation and coherent with the Security Questions I classes, the students should be able, from a critical perspective, to acquire knowledge and practical to:

• Critically analyze new security issues of a transnational nature, with emphasis on non-cybercrime and cyber-security, terrorism and trafficking in human beings.
• To know the main characteristics and the challenges of cybercrime in the current society.
• Know the different types of cybercrime, their profiles and techniques.
• Apply as different criminological theories to cybercrime.
• Deepen the fear of cybercrime and its correlates.
• Understand the complexity of terrorism definition.
• Know the different typologies of terrorism, as well as criminological theories that try to explain it.
• Deepen the process of radicalization.
• Critically analyze the problem of human trafficking and how it has been prevented. 

Learning outcomes and competences

Students should be able to characterize the problems of national and transnational issues such as human trafficking, cybercrime and terrorism.

Working method

Presencial

Program

• Problems of transnational (in) security: cybercrime, terrorism and trafficking in human beings


• Cybercrime: definition, legal framework, typologies, profiles and explanatory theories.


• The fear of cybercrime.


• Terrorism: definition, typologies, explanatory theories and processes of radicalization.


• The fear of terrorism.


• Human Trafficking: definition, legal framework, the cycle of human trafficking.


• Prevention of trafficking in human beings.

Mandatory literature

Zedner Lucia; Security. ISBN: 978-0-415-39176-4
Guedes Inês Sousa 1987-; Medo do crime
Crawford Adam; Crime prevention and community safety
Wood, J., & Dupont, B. ; Democracy, society and the governance of security, Cambridge University Press., 1999
Gus Martin; Understanding terrorism. ISBN: 978-1-0718-0842-9
Inês Sousa Guedes; Cibercriminalidade. ISBN: 978-989-693-122-3
Majid Yar; Cybercrime and society. ISBN: 978-1-5264-4065-5
Thomas J. Holt; Cybercrime and digital forensics. ISBN: 978-1-138-23873-2

Complementary Bibliography

KatjaFranko ; Globalization and Crime, Sage Publications
Robert Philippe 1939-; O^cidadão, o crime e o Estado. ISBN: 972-46-1339-9
Hagan Frank E.; Introduction to criminology. ISBN: 0-8304-1351-0
Schram & Tibbetts; Introduction to criminology: why do they do it?, Sage Publications , 2014
Gill; The Handbook of Security , Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Wakefield, A. ; Selling security: the private policing of public space, Willan Publishing., 2003
Fielding Nigel; Community policing. ISBN: 0-19-826027-X

Comments from the literature

Papers

Zedner, L. (2006). Liquid security: managing the market for crime control. Criminology & Criminal Justice, 6, 267-288
Machado, C. & Agra, C. (2002). Insegurança e Medo do Crime : da Ruptura da Sociabilidade à Reprodução da Ordem Social. Revista Portuguesa de Ciência Criminal, 12, 79-101.
Guedes, I. (2012). Sentimento de insegurança, personalidade e emoções disposicionais: que relações? Dissertação de Mestrado em Criminologia, FDUP. 
Warr, M. (2000). Fear of crime in the United States: Avenues for research and policy. Measurement and analysis of crime and justice, 4, 541-489
Taylor. R. (1999). The incivilities thesis: Theory, measurement and policy. In Langworthy, R. (Ed.), Measuring what matters: Proceedings from the Policing Research Institute meetings (pp. 65–88). Washington, DC: National Institute of Justice.

Teaching methods and learning activities

 There will be theoretical classes for the contents presentation combined with tutorial supervision. We highlight the working groups, which will have direct contact to the relevant contexts of the domain.

 

 

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

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

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	0,00
Elaboração de projeto	0,00
Elaboração de relatório/dissertação/tese	0,00
Estudo autónomo	0,00
Frequência das aulas	0,00
Realização de Estágio	0,00
Trabalho de campo	0,00
Trabalho de investigação	0,00
Trabalho escrito	26,00
Trabalho laboratorial	0,00
Total:	26,00

Eligibility for exams

See general rules

Calculation formula of final grade

Exam: 60%
Distributed evalutation: 40%

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

See genera rules

Classification improvement

See general rules