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

COMPORTAMENTO DESVIANTE - 2017/2018

1º curricular year
Semestralidade: 1st semester
ECTS: 6

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutora Inês Sousa Guedes
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutora Inês Sousa Guedes

Class type and School hours

Teaching Language

Portuguese

Main Aims/Objectives

To understand the concepts of “deviance”, “normal and pathological” and the sciences of deviant behaviour;
To promote knowledge concerning the main biological and psychological perspectives to the understanding of deviant/delinquent behavior.

Specific Aims/Objectives

To introduce the concepts of deviance, normal and pathological and the sciences of deviant behavior
To know the main theoretical contributions of psychological sciences, specially psychology, to the understanding of deviant/delinquent behavior.
To introduce the theoretical contributions of biological theories to the understanding of deviant/delinquent behavior.

Skills to be acquired

Know the theoretical developments of the nature and meaning of deviance, normality and pathology
Demonstrate knowledge about the main theories applied to the understanding of deviant behavior.
Explain the deviant behavior applied to different contexts and behaviors through different theories
Apply theories to the different criminal realities.

Teaching Procedures

Expositive method and debates

Programme

- Identification of the concepts of deviance / deviant behavior, normal, pathological and transgressive in the framework of the biological, psychological and social sciences.

II- Psychology of deviant behavior
1. Introduction
2. Basic concepts and main theoretical paradigms of Psychology (psychoanalysis, behaviorism, Gestalt, humanism and cognitivism).
3. General approach of theoretical and empirical contributions to the study of deviant and delinquent behavior (cognitive processes, psychosocial processes and moral development)
- Theories of learning and delinquent behavior
- Cognitive Perspectives and Delinquent Behavior
4. Deviant and delinquent personality and behavior
4.1 Introduction to the psychology of personality
4.2. The personality of the offender
- Definition of concepts (personality, trait, dimension)
- Personality and delinquency: The differential approaches of the criminal personality and the phenomenological approaches - main authors.

III - Introduction to the contributions of biosocial Criminology

Evaluation Type

Two tests
Written work with oral presentation

Teaching Resources

Audiovisual media
Practical exercises

Sustainability Objectives

Keywords

Deviant behavior
Delinquency
Psychological Theories
Personality

Main Bibliography

Complementary Bibliography