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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
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