Cursos / 1º Ciclo / / Faculty of Law :: Criminology
HISTORIA DA CRIMINOLOGIA - 2021/2022
1º curricular year
Semestralidade: 1st semester
ECTS: 3
Teachers
Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutora Gilda Santos
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutora Gilda Santos
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
The presentation of the programmatic contents is combined with the analysis of the relevant literature and with the accomplishment of exercises of application related to the topics taught.
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
Audio-visual resources
Analysis of scientific texts
Practical exercises
Sustainability Objectives
Keywords
Scientific method
History
Portuguese Criminology
Historical evolution
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 |