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

Versao Portuguesa

SEGURANÇA E PREVENÇÃO - 2021/2022

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

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Mestre Josefina Castro
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

The main objective of the curricular unit is to introduce students to one of the main fields of contemporary Criminology, focusing on themes and lines of research that are central to an integrated understanding of security in contemporary Western societies.
By the end of the course, students are expected to be able to:

- Identify and characterize the various dimensions of (in) security, developing conceptual and methodological tools that are essential to the development of critical thinking

Specific Aims/Objectives

(cont.)
-- Characterize the models of crime and insecurity prevention, identifying their rationalities and main strategies.
-Understand the evolution of the governance of crime and security in western societies, based on contemporary analyses.
- Know the current organization of some models of internal security, from a comparative approach of the Portuguese experience.

Skills to be acquired

Students are expected to develop analytical, methodological and technical skills involved in the study of security issues.

Teaching Procedures

Theoretical and practical classes that combine the exposition of the syllabus contents with the use of teaching methodologies which comprehend eliciting techniques that provide the opportunity to consolidate and apply theoretical and methodological knowledge and skills. The tutorial classes allow the supervision of the written assignment.

Programme

1.Security and crime
1.1.Introduction: concepts and empirical-theoretical lines of research
1.2.The dimensions of subjective insecurity: conceptualization and empirical operationalization
1.3. The relationship between objective and subjective security
1.4. Individual, social and environmental factors
1.5.Empirical research methodologies and techniques

2.Prevention of crime and insecurity
2.1. The concept of prevention
2.2.Risk and crime prevention
2.3. Introduction to crime prevention models

3 .. Governance of crime and security
3.1.Conceptual introduction and theoretical-empirical perspectives
3.2. Elements for the analysis of governance
3.3. Security, justice and democracy
3.4. Policing and security
3.5 The Portuguese security system: concept, historical evolution, organic and functional analysis.

Evaluation Type

The CE includes: i) class attendance; ii) 2 written tests; ii) a written assignment (the planning of a preventive intervention) and its discussion.

Teaching Resources

Databases and scientific literature

Sustainability Objectives

Keywords

Main Bibliography

Author Zedner, Lucia; Goold, Benjamin
Title Crime and Security
Place London
Editor Routledge
Year 2006
Author Farrington, David; Welsh, Brandon
Title The Oxford Handbook of crime prevention
Place New York
Editor Oxford University Press
Year 2012
Author Murray Lee and Gabe Mythen (Eds.)
Title Routledge International Handbook on Fear of Crime
Place London, New York
Editor Routledge
Year 2018

Complementary Bibliography

Author Jenniffer Wood; Dupont; Benoit
Title Democracy, society and governance of security
Author Newburn, Tim
Title Handbook of policing