Cursos / 1º Ciclo / Faculty of Law :: Criminology

CRIMINOLOGIA - 2017/2018

1º curricular year
Semestralidade: 2nd semester
ECTS: 6

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutora Olga Cunha
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutora Fátima Rodrigues

Class type and School hours

Teaching Language

Portuguese

Main Aims/Objectives

- To know the history of scientific criminology and of modern criminal investigation and forensic criminology
- To know the concepts and scope of forensic criminology and criminalistic and its application to criminal investigatiom
- To know and to apply different strategies/techniques of forensic criminology

Specific Aims/Objectives

- To understand the concepts of criminology, forensic criminology, criminalistic and criminal investigation
- To understand the historical evolution of scientific criminology
- To know and to understand the modern criminal investigation and forensic criminology
- To understand and to apply techniques and knowledges of forensic criminology

Skills to be acquired

- To know the historical evolution of scientific criminology and modern and contemporary forensic investigation
- To know the concept of evidence
- To understand basics of Forensic Medicine
- To know and to apply interviewing/interrogation techniques
- To know and to understand the concept and methodologies of psychological autopsy
- To know the concept of forensic victimology and its methodologies

Teaching Procedures

Lectures
Practical classes
Tutorials

Programme

1. Criminology, forensic criminology, criminalistic and criminal investigation
1.1. Concept, object and objectives
1.2. Methods of reasoning: induction and deduction
2. The begginings of scientific criminology and forensic investigation
21. The birth of scientific criminology
2.2. Early forensics
2.3. The development of modern forensic investigation
2.4. Identifying and measuring criminals
3. The beggining of criminal investigation
3.1. The socal history of policing
3.2. Early forms of investigation
3.3. The pre-police
3.4. The development of modern police and criminal investigations
3.5. Science in criminal investigation.
4. Investigating crime
4.1. The modern criminal investigation
4.2. Police functions
5. Information, material and evidence
5.1. Case 8re)construction
5.2. The different forms of information
5.3. The efficacy of evidence
5.4. Types of evidence
5.5. Trace evidence
5.5. Exchange evidence dynamics
6, Interview and interrogation
6.1. Functions of the interview/interrogation
6.2. Interview/interrogation techniques
6.3. Motivation techniques
6.4. Implementation of the interview/interrogation.
7. Violent death situations
7.1. Suicide
7.2. Accident
7.3. Homicide
8. Legal Medicine
8.1. Types of death
8.2. Early signs of death
8.3. Late signs of death
8.4. Destructive phenomena
8.5. Conservative phenomena
8.6. Types of injuries
9. Forensic victimology
9.1. Definition and objectives
9.2. Victimological analysis
10. Psychological autopsy
10.1 Definition and objectives
10.2. Methodologies
11. Forensics on trial
11.1. Science and the legal system
11.2. Legal types of evidence
11.3. Scientific experts
11.4. Scientific reasoning in court

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

Complementary Bibliography