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

JUSTIÇA RESTAURATIVA E MEDIAÇÃO - 2021/2022

2º curricular year
Semestralidade: 2nd semester
ECTS: 6

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutora Maria Leonor Esteves
Assistant Professor: Mestre Josefina Castro

Class type and School hours

Orientação Tutorial : 1 Horas
Prática : 1 Horas
Teórica : 2 Horas

Teaching Language

Portuguese

Main Aims/Objectives

It is intended to promote an understanding of restorative justice as a model of responding to crime that is different from criminal justice. The student should be able to answer questions about the why, for what, and the how of restorative justice. They should also understand penal mediation as a restorative practice and know the legal basis that, in Portugal, supports the possibility of adopting such practices in different moments of the process of response to crime.

Specific Aims/Objectives

All the programmatic content aims at the acquisition of knowledge that allows the student to understand the emergence of Restorative Justice as an alternative to punishment and to critically evaluate criminal mediation as an instrument of that new criminal policy.

Skills to be acquired

Students should gain theoretical knowledge about the meaning and purpose of restorative practices and the ability to critically consider this criminal policy proposal as opposed to the response to crime provided by criminal law.

Teaching Procedures

In the lecture classes, we will start with an explanation of the topic, followed by a discussion and eventually a presentation of student work.

Programme

1. Restorative Justice - Why? The criminological reasons for its emergence.
2. Restorative Justice - What for? The aims of Restorative Justice - analysis of its specificities in comparison with the aims of the penalties.
3. Restorative Justice - How? The restorative practices (conferences, restorative circles, and mediation) and the predominance, in Europe, of penal mediation.
4. The restorative practices admitted by the Portuguese legislator: the penal mediation as a diversion mechanism and the post-sentence mediation.

Evaluation Type

Two AC Tests

Teaching Resources

General and specialized library

Sustainability Objectives

Keywords

Restorative Justice
Restorative Practices
Mediation
Purposes of the penalties (Sentencing)

Main Bibliography

Complementary Bibliography