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

VITIMOLOGIA NA ACTUALIDADE - 2021/2022

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

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutora Gilda Santos
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutora Gilda Santos

Class type and School hours

Orientação Tutorial : 1 Horas
Teórico-prática : 2 Horas

Teaching Language

Portuguese

Main Aims/Objectives

This curricular unit addresses different forms of victimization, with relevance today, exploring its main characteristics, principles of intervention and support structures for victims.

Specific Aims/Objectives

- To acquire knowledge about different forms of contemporary victimization, focusing its characteristics, risk factors and consequences;
- To develop skills of understanding and critical analysis with regard to strategies and mechanisms for intervention and support with victims;
- To critically reflect around the ethical assumptions underlying the development of research in the field of victimology.

Skills to be acquired

- To develop knowledge about current forms of victimization, understanding its impact;
- To recognize the main structures and mechanisms of intervention with victims;
- To acquire knowledge about the ethical principles underlying the research with victims

Teaching Procedures

Demonstrative methodology, combining both practical exercises and the analysis of scientific works.

Programme

1. Domestic Violence
1.1 The. Violence between heterosexual couples and between same sex couples
1.2 Dating violence
1.3 Elderly abuse

2. Sexual violence
2.2 Child sexual abuse
2.3 Sexual violence against women

3. Bullying and cyberbullying

4. Mobbing

5. Stalking

6. Human trafficking

7. Victimization in the refugee context

8. Intervention with victims: strategies, mechanisms and ethical assumptions

9. Ethical issues in the development of scientific investigations with victims

Evaluation Type

1. Continuous assessment:
a) Group work: development of a literature review on one of the themes of the syllabus
b. 2 Mini-tests

2. Final evaluation: Exam

Teaching Resources

Audio-visual resources
Analysis of scientific texts
Practical exercises

Sustainability Objectives

Keywords

Victimology
Victim
Victimization
Intervention
Ethics

Main Bibliography

Complementary Bibliography