Cursos / 1º Ciclo / Faculty of Law :: Criminology
CRIMINALIDADE ORGANIZADA E ECONÓMICA - 2017/2018
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
Author | Albanese, Jay S. |
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Title | The prediction and control of organized crime: a r |
Place | Research report submitted to the U.S. Department o |
Editor | National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS |
Year | 2002 |
Author | Braz, José |
Title | Investigação Criminal: A organização, o método |
Place | Coimbra |
Editor | Almedina |
Year | 2009 |
Author | von Lampe, Klaus |
Title | Organized Crime in Europe: Conceptions and Realiti |
Editor | in Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, 2(1 |
Year | 2008 |
Complementary Bibliography
Author | UNODC |
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Title | Convenção Contra o Crime Organizado Transnacional |
Author | UNODC |
Title | Convenção contra a Corrupção |