Biopsychosociology of Deviant Behaviour

Code:

LP406

Acronym:

BCD

Instance: 2004/2005 - A

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Psychology
Institution Responsible:	Faculty of Psychology and Education Science

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LPSI	37	Plano oficial a partir de 2001/02	4	6	11	-

Objectives

To provide comprehensive-explanatory training concerning the many biopsychosocial variables involved in transgression behaviour and deviation from the norm, namely, drug addiction, criminality, prostitution and deviant sub-cultures.

Program

I. Theoretical and epistemological fundamentation
a) Transdisciplinary notion of biopsychosociology :
- Concepts of normal, pathological, deviant and transgressive;
- Analysis of emergency conditions of a biopsychosociology of the deviant behaviour;
- Conditions for a non-reductionist biopsychosociology.
b) General theory of the auto-poietic subject of C. Agra as the origin of biopsychosocial integration.
II. Objects
a) Addictions, the addictive behaviour and drugs – elementary notions:
- Biological approaches of addictive behaviour;
- Psychological approaches to addictive behaviour;
- Anthropological history of psycho-activity;
- The “psychotropics territories “ (L. Fernandes);
- Drug addiction and AIDS;
- “Biopsychosocial” integration.
b) Anti-Sociability, delinquency and criminality:
- Biological approaches;
- Social sphere of deviant behaviours;
- “Biopsychosocial” integration.
c) Relationship between drugs use and criminality.
d) Particular cases of prostitution, rape and “serial murder”.

Main Bibliography

AGRA, C.M. (1990). Sujet autopoiétique et transgression. In Acteur social et délinquance - homage à Christian Debuyst. Bruxelas: Pierre Mardaga, Ed.
AGRA, C.M.(Coord., 1993), Dizer a Droga, Ouvir as Drogas. Porto: Radicário.
AGRA, C.M. (1995). Da rapsódia à Sinfonia - Epistema. Toxicodependências, 3, 47-58.
AGRA, C.M. (1995). Da rapsódia à Sinfonia - sentido para a composição de um sistema de pensamento na área das drogas. Toxicodependências, 1, 26-32.
AGRA, C. (1998). Entre Droga e Crime. Lisboa: Editorial Notícias.
AGRA, C; Queirós, C.; Manita, C.; Fernandes, L. (1997). Biopsicossociologia do Comportamento Desviante. Separata especial da Revista do Ministério Público, nº 69.
CANGUILHEM, G. (1979). Le normal et le pathologique. Paris: PUF (2ª ed.).
CAIRO, R. & Favard, A.M. (Ed, 1991). La personnalité criminelle. Toulouse: Érès.
FERNANDEs, J.L. (1997). Actores e territórios psicotrópicos. Etnografia das drogas numa periferia urbana. Porto: FPCEUP (dissertação de candidatura ao grau de Doutor).
FERNANDES, L. (1998). O sítio das drogas. Lisboa: Ed. Notícias.
MANITA SANTOS, C. (1998). Auto-organização psicológica e transgressão. Análise empirico-crítica de duas figuras do comportamento desviante: criminosos e consumidores de drogas. Porto: FPCEUP(dissertação de candidatura ao grau de Doutor).
MARQUES-TEIXEIRA, J. (1994). Toxicodependência e Auto-organização. Lisboa: Piaget.
MOFFIT, T.E. & MEDNICK, S.A. (1988). Biological contributions to crime causation. NATO ASI Series.
MATURANA, H. & VARELA, F. (1979). Autopoiesis and cognition. The realization of the living. Boston: D. Reidel Pub.
MUNCIE, J.; MCLAUGHLIN, E. & LANGAN, M. (1996). Criminological perspectives: a reader. London: Sage.
NEGREIROS, J. (2001). Delinquências juvenis. Lisboa: Editorial Notícias.
PRIGOGINE, I. & STENGERS, I. (1986). A nova aliança. Lisboa: Gradiva.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Number of hours per week: Theoretical – 2h/Practical – 2h

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Calculation formula of final grade

Each of the above assessment components weights 50% in the final classification.