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

CRIMINALIDADE SEXUAL - 2021/2022

3º curricular year
Semestralidade: 1st semester
ECTS: 6

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutora Sílvia Ribeiro
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutora Sílvia Ribeiro

Class type and School hours

Teórico-prática : 2 Horas
Orientação Tutorial : 1 Horas

Teaching Language

Portuguese

Main Aims/Objectives

To promote the acquisition of knowledge and understanding of the phenomenon of sexual crime in the bio-psycho-social domains and its critical analysis.

Specific Aims/Objectives

Develop specialized criminological knowledge regarding sexual crime.
To favor the taking of a critical perspective based on the theme.

Skills to be acquired

Research competence / bibliographic research and integration and synthesis capacity.
Analytical and methodological skills in the field of sexual crime.
Interconnection skills between different related topics.
Interpersonal skills of interaction, reflection and self-criticism.

Teaching Procedures

Use of teaching methodologies expositive, demonstrative, interrogative and active. Audio-visual support for content exposition in T / P classes. O.T. will be conducted with the presentation and discussion of topics related to sexual crime, clarification of doubts and support for students´ work.

Programme

1 - Conceptual framework of sexual crime.
Theories about sexual crimes, perpetrators and victims:
-Definitions; typologies; explanatory models.
2-Sexual homicides
3- Violation:
- marital rape;
-violation in first encounters;
- female rape, of the same sex and with different status.
Incestuous crimes:
-Incesto father-daughter;
-Incesto mother-child;
-Other types of intra-family abuse.
Sexual Predators:
- sexual abuse of children;
-pornography;
- sexual trafficking;
- other types of sexual abuse and paraphilia.
6. Prostitution:
- Women and prostitution;
-Prostritution in young women / adolescents;
-Male prostitution.

Evaluation Type

Accomplishment of two written tests and presentation of a paper.
Weighting of elements related to attendance and participation in class.

Teaching Resources

Computerized audio-visual technology; computer; scientific videos; books, articles and scientific journals.

Sustainability Objectives

Keywords

Sexuality.
Crime.
Murder.
Violation.
Incest.
Prostitution

Main Bibliography

Complementary Bibliography