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

HISTORIA DA CRIMINOLOGIA - 2023/2024

1º curricular year
Semestralidade: 1st semester
ECTS: 3

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutora Fátima Rodrigues
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutora Fátima Rodrigues

Class type and School hours

Teórico-prática : 2 Horas

Teaching Language

Portuguese

Main Aims/Objectives

- To know the emergence 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;
- To 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 internationally.

Specific Aims/Objectives

- To make students aware of the need to resort to historical-critical analysis methodologies of crime and punishment;
- To acquire conceptual tools suitable for the historical analysis of crime and criminology;
- To 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, particularly in Portugal.

Teaching Procedures

Audio-visual resources
Analysis of scientific texts
Practical exercises

Programme

I- The method of historical analysis.
How is history made?
- The uncritical realization of history (simplistic model);
- Historical research with method (complex model); -
The two great critical traditions of the history of science: the historicist tradition and the logicist tradition.

II - The evolution of criminological thought and its relationship with the History of scientific thought in general:

- Emergence and evolution of criminological thought, starting from the perspectives of Pires and Garland: introduction to the different schools of criminology;
- From the Classical School to the Cartographic School. The transformations that took place in criminological thought in the passage from the 18th century to the 19th century;
- Positivism as the dominant philosophy of knowledge in the 20th century and its repercussions on the knowledge of crime and criminal justice;
- The conditions of possibility of a science of crime and the delinquent: the Italian Positivist School and its antecedents;
- The decline of Criminal Anthropology;
- The Differential Development of Criminology in Europe and North America;
- The great references of Criminology during the second half of the 20th century;
- Criminology in the history of the present time.

III - History of Criminology in Portugal

- Methodological issues;
- Stages in the constitution and development of Criminology in Portugal: research, training and knowledge transfer;
- Portuguese Criminology in the first decades of the 20th century (creation of the Criminology Institutes and academic research);
- Period of decadence of Portuguese Criminology;
- Its rebirth over the last 40 years.

Evaluation Type

Continuous assessment: Two written evaluation tests.
Final evaluation: Written exam.

Teaching Resources

Audio-visual resources
Analysis of scientific texts
Practical exercises

Sustainability Objectives

Keywords

Scientific method
History
Portuguese Criminology
Historical evolution

Main Bibliography

Complementary Bibliography