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
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 |