Cursos / 1º Ciclo / / Faculty of Law :: Criminology
ESTÁGIO - 2018/2019
3º curricular year
Semestralidade: 2nd semester
ECTS: 12
Teachers
Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutora Olga Cunha
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutora Olga Cunha
Class type and School hours
Orientação Tutorial : 2 Horas
Teaching Language
Portuguese
Main Aims/Objectives
To promote the direct contact of the student with his area of expertise;
To deepen the knowledge and the acquisition of professional skills necessary for his future employability, under pedagogical supervision.
Specific Aims/Objectives
To develop personal and relational skills to a successful adaptation to the context of the internship;
To promote the autonomy, making the transition from the student role to the criminologist role;
To articulate and to apply the knowledge and skills acquired in academic training to supervised practice.
Skills to be acquired
To provide students with internships that allow professional experience contact;
To promote the interconnection of theoretical and practical issues addressed throughout the course.
To apply the knowledge acquired during the degree to real situations.
Teaching Procedures
a) Theoretical-practical classes; b) Interaction with the student in order to promote the theoretical-practical orientation of the work being carried out; c) Moodle: contents, summaries, news, among other elements that will be made available on the course page.
Programme
Curricular traineeships conducted in professional context;
During the first week of the semester, the teacher, together with students, identifies and addresses the need of host institutions for the traineeships
1. Presentation of the traineeship regulation;
2. Students integration in the traineeship context;
3. Development of a traineeship plan;
4. Definition of intern functions;
5. The characteristics of the traineeship context and its dynamics;
6. Ethical and deontological issues in the practice of criminology;
7. Characterization of the traineeship phases: Observation, practice and supervision;
8. Presentation, analysis and discussion of activities and practical cases;
9. Application, limitations and strengths of criminological practice;
10. Development of a traineeship report: Report goals; structure; writing process; reflection about the traineeship experience.
Evaluation Type
a) Written traineeship report, prepared and delivered up to one week after the end of the traineeship (20%);
b) Report/traineeship mentor evaluation about the practical performance of the intern in the professional context (20%);
c) Presentation and public defence of the report in an oral exam (60%).
Teaching Resources
Audio-visuals
Clinical cases;
Practical exercises;
Sustainability Objectives
Keywords
Traineeship
Supervision
Criminology
Criminological intervention
Traineeship report
Main Bibliography
Author | Stout, B., Yates, J., & Williams, B. |
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Title | Applied criminology |
Place | London |
Editor | Sage |
Year | 2008 |
Author | Gilbert, Nigel |
Title | Researching social life |
Place | London |
Editor | Sage |
Year | 2005 |
Author | Liebling, Alison, Maruna, Shadd, & McAra, Lesley |
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Criminology |
Edition | 6th |
Place | Oxford |
Editor | Oxford University Press |
Year | 2017 |