Cursos / 1º Ciclo / Faculty of Law :: Criminology
HISTORIA DA CRIMINOLOGIA - 2018/2019
1º curricular year
Semestralidade: 1st semester
ECTS: 3
Teachers
Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutor Cândido da Agra
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutor Cândido da Agra
Class type and School hours
Teórico-prática : 2 Horas
Teaching Language
Portuguese
Main Aims/Objectives
- To know the emergency conditions and the development of knowledge about crime and the social reaction in Western countries, placing them in their respective theoretical, socio-cultural, political and ethical contexts.
- Address the major criminological issues from a perspective that integrates historical and interdisciplinary elements.
- To historically analyze the criminological knowledge produced in Portugal and to situate it in the criminology international developments .
Specific Aims/Objectives
Sensitize students to the need to use historical-critical analysis methodologies of crime and punishment;
Acquire conceptual tools appropriate to the historical analysis of crime and criminology;
Operationalize the theoretical-methodological frameworks acquired at the level of empirical research.
Skills to be acquired
Students should be able to:
- identify the historical analysis of Criminology, considering its special complexity in relation to the historical "a priori" (M. Foucault);
- identify the different phases of the evolution of knowledge about crime and the criminal since the 17th century, especially in Portugal.
Teaching Procedures
Theoretical-practical classes, combining the exposition of the contents with the accomplishment of exercises of application of the transmitted knowledge.
Programme
I- The question of the method of historical analysis.
How to make history?
- the uncritical creation of history (simplistic model)
- historical research with method (complex model)
II - The evolution of criminological knowledge and its relation to the History of scientific knowledge in general.
- the development stages of scientific knowledge;
- emergence and evolution of criminological thought: introduction to different schools of criminology.
III - History of Criminology in Portugal
- methodological issues;
- stages of the constitution and development of the criminology in Portugal: research, training and knowledge transfer (3rd mission).
Evaluation Type
Two written evaluation tests.
Teaching Resources
Bibliography
Sustainability Objectives
Keywords
scientific method
history
criminology
Main Bibliography
Author | AGRA, Cândido |
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Title | A Criminologia: um Arquipélago Interdisciplinar |
Edition | 1ª ed. |
Place | Porto |
Editor | U. Porto Editorial |
Year | 2012 |
Author | DEBUYST, Christian; F. Digneffe et al |
Title | Histoire des Savoires du Crime et de la Peine, Vol |
Edition | 1ª ed. |
Place | Bruxelles |
Editor | De Boek |
Year | 2005 - 2008 |
Author | Cândido da Agra (org.) ; Marcus Alan Gomes (org.) |
Title | Criminologia Integrativa |
Edition | 1ª ed. |
Place | Belo Horizonte |
Editor | D´Plácido : Perspectivas Criminológicas |
Year | 2018 |
Complementary Bibliography
Author | FOUCAULT, M. |
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Title | A Arqueologia do Saber |
Edition | 1ª |
Place | Porto |
Editor | Almedina |
Year | 2005 |
Author | AGRA, Candido da |
Title | Science, maladie mental et dispositifs de l´enfanc |
Edition | 1ª |
Place | Lisboa |
Editor | Instituto NAcional de Investigação Científica |
Year | 1986 |