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Victimology II
| Code: | C301 | Acronym: | VIT II |
| Keywords | |
|---|---|
| Classification | Keyword |
| OFICIAL | Criminology |
Instance: 2024/2025 - 1S (since 16-09-2024 to 20-12-2024) 
| 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 | - |
Teaching language
PortugueseObjectives
To understand the specific dynamics and to reflect critically on the main tendencies in relation to Victimology from different situations and forms of victimization.Reflect on the main debates and critical approaches regarding some forms of victimization in the Portuguese and international contexts.
Provide the frameworks and basic concepts for a correct understanding of the relationships between victimization, vulnerability and intervention.
It is intended that students acquire knowledge in the scope of evaluation, investigation and intervention with victims of crime.
Critically analyze in its essential aspects the different forms of intervention and mechanisms to support victims
Learning outcomes and competences
Acquire a comprehensive and related view of the main debates and critical approaches to particular forms of victimization and their relationships and interconnections in the Portuguese and international context.
Ability to know in depth and work with key concepts in the victimization analysis such as vulnerability, intersectionality and others.
Ability to critically analyze in its essential aspects the different forms of intervention and mechanisms to support victims.
To reflect critically on the victimization investigation related to the different forms of victimization analyzed in the classes.
Ability to know in depth and work with key concepts in the victimization analysis such as vulnerability, intersectionality and others.
Ability to critically analyze in its essential aspects the different forms of intervention and mechanisms to support victims.
To reflect critically on the victimization investigation related to the different forms of victimization analyzed in the classes.
Working method
PresencialProgram
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I. Sexual violence
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">Sexual abuse against children.
">Sexual violence against women.
">II.- Violence in intimate relationships and family violence
">Domestic Violence: The Basics
">Specific forms of domestic violence:
">Violence against women
">Violence against children
">Violence in the relationship
">Violence against the elderly
Intersectionality and domestic violence. ">Some examples.
">Domestic violence and older women.
">Domestic violence and women with disabilities.
">Domestic violence and immigrant women.
">III.- Other forms of victimization: specific needs and intervention.
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PRACTICAL ISSUES
">Intervention with victims of crime
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">The victim support technician
Trauma-centered approaches
First intervention.
Mandatory literature
Aitken Lynda; Gender issues in elder abuse. ISBN: 0-8039-7523-6Cicchetti Dante; Child maltreatment. ISBN: 0-521-37969-5
Davis Robert C. 340; Victims of crime. ISBN: 0-7619-0155-8
Furniss Tilman; The^multi-professional handbook of child sexual abuse. ISBN: 0-415-05563-6
Karmen Andrew; Crime victims. ISBN: 0-534-02997-3
Kemshall Hazel 340; Good practice in working with victims of violence. ISBN: 1-85302-768-5
Machado, Carla; Gonçalves, Rui A.; Violência e vítimas de crime, 1º e 2º volumes
Moriarty Laura J. 340; Current issues in victimology research. ISBN: 978-1-59460-240-5
Walklate Sandra 340; Handbook of victims and victimology. ISBN: 978-1-84392-257-5
Roberts Albert R. 340; Crisis intervention handbook. ISBN: 0-19-513365-X
Complementary Bibliography
Gracia Ibánez, Jorge; El maltrato familiar hacia las personas mayores. Un análisis sociojurídico, Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza (PUZ), 2012Kalmar Roberta; Child abuse. ISBN: 0-8403-1723-9
Manita Celina 340; Violência doméstica. ISBN: 978-972-597-315-8
Teaching methods and learning activities
Being a discipline more that looks to deepen and consolidate the contents of Vitimologia I, developing them in a way more directed to the intervention next to crime victims, special of violence, it is privileged, along with the lessons of expositive type, the study and analysis of the methods of intervention in victims, through the debate of practical cases and simulation dynamics.
The classes combine the exposition of theoretical knowledge in which the main contents of the UC are transmitted, with practical moments in which, from this point of view, some of the topics included in the UC are dealt with.
Theoretical classes of exposition of the contents and also classes with use of methods of tutorial orientation of the exercises of application of the transmitted knowledge.
The classes combine the exposition of theoretical knowledge in which the main contents of the UC are transmitted, with practical moments in which, from this point of view, some of the topics included in the UC are dealt with.
Theoretical classes of exposition of the contents and also classes with use of methods of tutorial orientation of the exercises of application of the transmitted knowledge.
Evaluation Type
Distributed evaluation with final examAssessment Components
| Designation | Weight (%) |
|---|---|
| Exame | 75,00 |
| Trabalho prático ou de projeto | 25,00 |
| Total: | 100,00 |
Amount of time allocated to each course unit
| Designation | Time (hours) |
|---|---|
| Estudo autónomo | 25,00 |
| Frequência das aulas | 75,00 |
| Total: | 100,00 |
Eligibility for exams
cfr. regulationCalculation formula of final grade
Distributed Evaluation:The DE presupposes the participation in exercises carried out in practical classes related to the intervention with victims of crime, with special focus on the construction and practice of an interview guide to collect information in a first contact.
To be approved at the practical component is a pre-requisite for admission to the final written exam.
In the case of students exempted from attending classes, there will be an assessment that will focus on a written work.
The assessment will be carried out in the last weeks of classes at a date and time to be determined in due course.
Evaluation Formula: Distributed evaluation: practical work 25%, final exam: 75%.
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