Cursos / 2º Ciclo / Faculty of Law :: Criminology

METODOLOGIAS E TÉCNICAS DE INVESTIGAÇÃO - 2017/2018

1º curricular year
Semestralidade: 2nd semester
ECTS: 7.5

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutor Cândido da Agra
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutor Cândido da Agra

Class type and School hours

Teórico-prática : 1 Horas

Teaching Language

Portuguese

Main Aims/Objectives

To know the steps of the research process.
To understand the concepts of qualitative and quantitative research in criminology.
To know the procedures for the construction of research instruments.
To understand the processes of analysis and interpretation of data.

Specific Aims/Objectives

To show how to plan a research project;
To describe each stage of an investigation;
To iIdentify, characterize and distinguish the methods and techniques of qualitative and quantitative research;
To present the conceptual basis for the design and construction of different tools for collecting and analyzing data.

Skills to be acquired

To recognize the specificities of scientific knowledge and its usefulness to improve the intervention in the area of criminology;
To know how to collect empirical and theoretical information needed to initiate a research;
To be able to formulate a solid problematic and to identify the most effective methods for responding to it;
To develop a critical sense in relation to the literature and the results of research;
To know strategies / models for the construction of instruments for collecting and analyzing data.

Teaching Procedures

The lectures will be expository in which the professor will present the program content provided. Part of the classes will be reserved for the resolution of practical exercises and guidance of a practical assignment for the application of knowledge acquired throughout the semester in this course .

Programme

1. What is the Scientific Method? The responses of internal epistemology and external epistemology.

2. The process of construction of scientific thought and its application to criminological thought.

3. Qualitative, quantitative and mixed methodologies: framework

4. Qualitative Research.
- Theoretical and epistemological framework.
- Data collection: interviews, observation, documentary analysis.

5. Quantitative Research
- Theoretical and epistemological framework;
- Data collection: general notions.

6. Basic notions for the construction of models of data analysis.

Evaluation Type

The continuous evaluation contemplates the classification of exercises presented in the classes by the students and commented by the Professor.

Teaching Resources

Books and scientific articles.

Sustainability Objectives

Keywords

Research methodologies for criminology;
Criminology

Main Bibliography

Complementary Bibliography