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

CRIMINALIDADE ORGANIZADA E ECONÓMICA - 2016/2017

3º curricular year
Semestralidade: 2nd semester
ECTS: 6

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutor José Leal
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutor José Leal

Class type and School hours

Teaching Language

Portuguese

Main Aims/Objectives

Understand and think critically about the phenomenon of organized crime and economic and financial crime;
To know the factors that contribute to describe the structures and ways of acting of organized crime;
Understand the organization and structure of systems of prevention and repression.

Specific Aims/Objectives

Understand the process of constructing the concept of organized crime;
To understand the various manifestations that organized crime tend to express, namely through the vector of economic and financial crime;
To know criminological and legal typologies about organized crime and economic-financial crime;
To understand the systems of prevention and repression built to contain the expressiveness of the most complex criminal phenomena;

Skills to be acquired

Understand the phenomenon of organized crime, in the way its concept has been constructed, its representation in the normative framework, and expressiveness in the factual plan, as well as explanatory perspectives, ways of identifying and evaluating it in the sense of preventive intervention, and repressive.

Teaching Procedures

Theoretical lectures with audiovisual support.
Practical classes for development, presentation and study of practical cases.
Tutorial classes with oral presentation of written works and interventions.

Programme

1. Organized crime as a conceptual and material problem
a) The construction of the concept
b) In the field of social sciences and intelligence products
c) In the scope of legal production

2. How to know organized crime
a) Explanatory theories of organized crime
b) Assessment and predictability
c) The need to elaborate typologies
d) Demonstrations of organized crime

3. Organized crime in economic and financial crime
a) Theoretical questions
b) The crimes, the characteristics of the agents, and the modi operandi
c) Impacts of social, economic and political scope

4. The intervention on organized crime
a) Preventiveinterventionstrategies
b) Supervision, and audit
c) The cycle of criminal investigation into organized crime
d) The central vector of international cooperation

Evaluation Type

Two tests.
A written group thematic work with oral presentation.
Evaluation of the interest and commitment evidenced and of the ability of written and oral expression.
Assiduity.

Teaching Resources

Bibliography and legislation indicated.
Consultation of monographs and articles.
Using video-projector and power point slide show to be offered to students in the electronic system Moodle of Lusíada University.

Sustainability Objectives

Keywords

Organized crime
Economic and financial crime
Criminal organizations
White-collar crime
Measures of prevention and repression

Main Bibliography

Complementary Bibliography