Class Seminar of Criminological Themes I

This course aims to provide students with information on matters of relevance to respective training, operating in a modular register and, in this sense, complementing the training and enhancing classroom debate.

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A. EDUCATIONAL TUTELARY INTERVENTION Educational guardianship law: scope of the law; objectives. Measures educational guardianship: enunciation; ratio; conditions; effects (Re)Insertion of minors: where to and as? Life reprogramming Juspsychological intervention and space for Criminology. B. COMMUNICATION AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE Communication in the present day. From the classical means of communication to social networks. The construction of currents and trends of opinion in criminal matters. Common sense and populism. Mediatization of crime and its actors. The media; opinion formation public. Discussion of criminal cases in media forums; histrionics and political-judicial opportunism. THE crime as an object of investment: political and economic-financial. Communication, courts and Control Devices: How to Convey Criminal Justice Messages? How to inform public opinion and the parties to decisions, for example on arrests and the application of coercive measures?

Given its seminar-like nature, this course should prioritize the participation of professors or specialists in the various subject areas, as well as people who work in the field, in order to translate the teachings into practice. Assessment: (a) attendance at theoretical, practical and theoretical-practical classes, and participation in them; (b) attendance at all sessions indicated by teachers, with the preparation of a short piece of work in class (40%); (c) completion of a frequency (60%). For the purposes of weighting the assessment, paragraph (b) requires participation and preparation of a report in all sessions, with a maximum number of 4.

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