Cursos / 1º Ciclo / Faculty of Law :: Criminology
CRIMINOLOGIA - 2016/2017
1º curricular year
Semestralidade: 2nd semester
ECTS: 6
Teachers
Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutora Olga Cunha
Assistant Professor: Mestre Vítor Silva
Class type and School hours
Teaching Language
Portuguese
Main Aims/Objectives
- To know the concepts and scope of criminology and criminalistic and its application to the criminal investigation
- To understand the concept of crime
- To know and to apply different criminal investigation strategies/techniques
Specific Aims/Objectives
- To understand the concepts of criminology, criminalistic and criminal investigation
- To understand the historical evolution of criminal investigation
- To know and to understand the modern criminal investigation
- To know and to understand the principles of criminalistic/criminal investigation
- To understand and to apply criminal investigation techniques and knowledges
Skills to be acquired
- To know and to apply interviewing/interrogation techniques
- To understand basics of Forensic Medicine
- To understand the concept of evidence
- To know and to apply strategies of crime scene analysis
- To know the concept of evidence chain of custody
- To know and to understand the criminal investigation in Portugal
Teaching Procedures
Lectures
Practical classes
Tutorials
Programme
- Criminology, criminalistic and criminal investigation: Concept, object and objectives
- The criminal investigation: A historical perspective. History of policing. Early forms of investigation. The pre-police. The development of modern police and criminal investigations. Science in criminal investigation.
- Investigating crime. Concept/definition of crime. The modern criminal investigation. Police functions.
- Principles of Criminology. The Locard principle. The Individuality principle.
- Interview and interrogation. Functions of the interview/interrogation. Interview/interrogation techniques. Motivation techniques. Implementation of the interview/interrogation.
- Legal Medicine. Types of death. Early signs of death. Corpse identification. Late signs of death. Cadaveric rigidity. Cadaveric Livor. Destructive phenomena. Conservative phenomena. Types of injuries.
- Violent death situations. Suicide. Accident. Homicide.
- Evidences. Evidence means. Means of obtaining evidence. Evidence. Traces.
- The work at the scene crime. Concept of crime scene. Crime scene management concept. Activities of the crime scene management. Subsequent activities to the crime scene management.
- The chain of custody of evidence.
Evaluation Type
2 shot exames
1 practical essay
1 final exam
Teaching Resources
Audiovisual media
Clinical cases
Practical exercises
Documentaries
Sustainability Objectives
Keywords
Criminology
Crime
Criminal investigation
Criminalistic
Main Bibliography
Author | SAFERSTEIN, Richard |
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Title | Criminalistics: An introduction to forensic scien |
Edition | 9th Ed. |
Place | New Jersey |
Editor | Pearson/Prentice Hall |
Year | 2007 |
Author | WILLIAMS, Andy |
Title | Forensic criminology |
Place | New York |
Editor | Routledge |
Year | 2015 |
Author | BRAZ, José |
Title | Ciência, tecnologia e investigação criminal |
Place | Coimbra |
Editor | Almedina |
Year | 2015 |
Complementary Bibliography
Author | BRAZ, José |
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Title | Investigação criminal |
Author | PINHEIRO, Fátima |
Title | CSI Criminal |