European Perspectives on People in Custody

Code:

MED10

Acronym:

PEPSC

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Social Science

Instance: 2007/2008 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Education Sciences
Course/CS Responsible:	European Master of Development Studies in Social and Educational Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MEU	17	Official Curricular Structure 2007	1	-	6	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

• to consider the emergence of custody as a social control device in the European context;
• to explore different custodial environments (medical-psychiatric, educational and prisons)

Program

1. Modernity: a new form of exercising power and a new form of excluding dangerous people.
2. Order and deviance as social constructions.
3. Goffman and the concept of total institutions.
4. Recent changes in the Portugueses juvenile justice system: the confrontation between the protection model and the justice model.

Mandatory literature

Agra Cândido; Science, maladie mentale et dispositifs de l.enfance
Becker Howard S.; Outsiders
Cohen Stanley; Visiones de control social. ISBN: 84-7665-231-3
Cunha Manuela Ivone Pereira da; Entre o bairro e a prisão. ISBN: 972-754-181-X
Foucault Michel; Vigiar e punir. ISBN: ISBN 85.326.0508-7
Goffman Erving; Manicômios, prisões e conventos. ISBN: 85-273-0202-0
Neves Tiago Guedes Barbosa do Nascimento; Entre educativo e penitenciário
Muncie John ed. lit.; Criminological perspectives. ISBN: ISBN 0-7619-5003-6

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lecture, work group, debate, exhibition and discussion of films.

keywords

Social sciences > Criminology
Social sciences > Sociology > Social changes

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Subject Classes	Participação presencial	13,00
	Trabalho escrito
	Total:	-	0,00

Eligibility for exams

The evaluation process requires that students attend classes, without prejudice of what is stated in item 4, article 9 of the evaluation regulation.

Calculation formula of final grade

The final result is based on the essay students are required to deliver within 30 days of the end of the course.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Sudents which are by law not obliged to attend classes may undergo the same evaluation process as the other students.

Classification improvement

Reformulation of the essay delivered.