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

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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
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.
Title A Arqueologia do Saber
Edition
Place Porto
Editor Almedina
Year 2005
Author AGRA, Candido da
Title Science, maladie mental et dispositifs de l´enfanc
Edition
Place Lisboa
Editor Instituto NAcional de Investigação Científica
Year 1986