Class Criminalization and Juspsychological Intervention

This course, based on knowledge obtained in Legal and Forensic Psychology, aims to students understand the meaning of the act and the process of criminalization, know the respective phases, the actors who pontificate in them and are capable of tracing the punitive trajectory. The right perspective psychological, in the logic of scientific intercontribution, is the matrix for reading and analyzing discourses of the criminalization actors, understanding the messages exchanged, the sharing of information and the effects of the same on the configuration of the criminalized process

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Historicity and geography of criminalization. The law: discourses and intradiscourses. From the transgressed law to the law applied. Discursive interactions: reciprocal interference of discourses and practices. Circularity of messages and contribution to the criminalizing architecture. Psychocriminal and legalpsychological analysis of discursive interactions. Fluctuations in the criminalizing axis. Juspsychological intervention and formal control devices. Informal reaction and the possibilities of intervention. Juspsychological intervention programs: transversality.

This course unit is fundamental to student training, therefore literature will be used to support the material and schematic modules will be presented to illustrate the topics covered. Assessment: Attendance and participation in classes, including scientific events indicated by the instructors, up to a maximum of 4, with one assessment question related to one of these events - 40% Frequency - 60%      

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