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2021/2022

Social Policy

Code: 100438 ECTS Credits: 6
Degree Type Year Semester
2500257 Criminology OT 4 0
The proposed teaching and assessment methodology that appear in the guide may be subject to changes as a result of the restrictions to face-to-face class attendance imposed by the health authorities.

Contact

Name:
Jose Tello
Email:
Jose.Tello@uab.cat

Use of Languages

Principal working language:
catalan (cat)
Some groups entirely in English:
No
Some groups entirely in Catalan:
Yes
Some groups entirely in Spanish:
No

Other comments on languages

In the event that international students enroll in the course, the classes will be in Spanish.

Teachers

Solange Hilbert Pérez

Prerequisites

It is not necessary to have prerequisites to carry out an adequate academic progress of Social Intervention Networks.

Objectives and Contextualisation

The subject of Social Intervention Networks is located in the fourth year of the Degree, in the mention of criminal execution. In this sense, the subject aims to provide the tools that allow graduates in Criminology to accompany those released, being a guide for professionals who accompany and supervise people who are subject to compliance with a criminal measure in the community and who have to network with other professionals, organizations or institutions, delegates of penal measures in the community (...), in order to respond to the individual needs of insertion of the user.

  • For these purposes, a first block of the subject addresses conceptual aspects of networking, as well as a tour of the various networks of social intervention and strategies that allow future graduates to optimize their skills in an environment in which they will interact with others. professionals.
  • In a second block, the subject details the mechanisms of Labor Law and Social Security Law that facilitate the insertion of those released from prison. Likewise, as a bridge towards integration beyond prison, the most relevant aspects of prison labor regulations are addressed.

Competences

  • Ability to analyse and summarise.
  • Applying a crime prevention program at a community level.
  • Applying an intervention proposal about a person serving a sentence.
  • Carrying out the criminological intervention on the basis of the values of pacification, social integration and prevention of further conflicts.
  • Designing a crime prevention program.
  • Drawing up an academic text.
  • Identifying existing social resources to intervene in the conflict and criminality.
  • Students must demonstrate a comprehension of the best crime prevention and intervention models for each specific problem.
  • Students must demonstrate they know a variety of criminal policies in order to face criminality and its different foundations.
  • Students must demonstrate they know the legal framework and operating model of the crime control agents.
  • Using the evaluation techniques of criminogenic risk and needs of a person in order to decide an intervention proposal.
  • Verbally transmitting ideas to an audience.
  • Working autonomously.
  • Working in teams and networking.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Ability to analyse and summarise.
  2. Acting in a professional way in the criminological field for pacifying, social integration and delinquency-prevention purposes.
  3. Applying an effective evaluative model in order to detect the criminological intervention needs in prison population.
  4. Appropriately applying social resources to criminality.
  5. Appropriately managing a security or prevention team.
  6. Correctly describing in the criminological field the legal-penal framework and crime control agents.
  7. Demonstrating they know the means and scientific procedures of crime prevention.
  8. Drawing up a delinquency prevention program.
  9. Drawing up an academic text.
  10. Effectively and individually implementing a criminological intervention.
  11. Effectively developing a delinquency prevention program in the community area.
  12. Intervening in the criminological field for pacifying, conciliatory and crime-prevention purposes.
  13. Knowing the structural prevention strategy of delinquency.
  14. Producing a social prevention program of delinquency.
  15. Properly using the criminological prevention and intervention programs.
  16. Verbally transmitting ideas to an audience.
  17. Working autonomously.
  18. Working in teams and networking.

Content

Block A

1. Networking, concept and limits.

  • 1.1. Knowledge Society and society network.
  • 1.2. Networking, conceptual aspects.
  • 1.3. Models of work in network.

2. The network of social intervention: areas, institutions, programs, actions and professionals.

  • 2.1. Training.
  • 2.2. Employment.
  • 2.3. Health.
  • 2.4. Housing.
  • 2.5. Wellness.
  • 2.6. Participation and citizenship.

3. Strategies for networking.

  • 3.1. Leadership.
  • 3.2. Collaboration.
  • 3.3. Communication.
  • 3.4. Documentation, monitoring and evaluation.

Block B

4. Work in the open labor market.

  • 4.1. Legal framework work in a labor law view.
  • 4.2. Access to work and labor intermediation.
  • 4.3. Promotion of the employment of people at risk of exclusion.
  • 4.3.1. Public plans and programs.
  • 4.3.2. Social Security fee bonuses.
  • 4.3.3. Training contract.
  • 4.4. Effects of prison on the employment contract.
  • 4.4.1. Termination and suspension of employment contract.
  • 4.4.2. Employment of people in open prison scheme.
  • 4.5. Employment in resettlement companies.
  • 4.5.1. Resettlement companies.
  • 4.5.2. Employment contract system in resettlement companies.

5. Penitentiary work.

  • 5.1. Legal framework .
  • 5.2. Employment contract parties.
  • 5.3. Activities related with penitentiary work.
  • 5.4. Access to work and mobility.
  • 5.5. Work management.
  • 5.6. Labor rights: working time and salaries.
  • 5.7. Termination and suspension of employment contract.
  • 5.8. The Work Authorization for  foreigners serving a prison sentence (ATP).

6. Social protection to people in prison and former prisoners.

  • 6.1. Unemployment protection in the main level of Social Security System.
  • 6.2. Unemployment welfare protection. Main features.
  • 6.3. Unemployment benefits for former prisoners.
  • 6.4. Invalidity pension.

Methodology

  • The methodology will try to combine the presentation of the most important theoretical aspects, following a system of master classes, from which the dynamics will be work in seminar format with a high participation of the students. To make this possible, cases, problems, simulations and presentations of experiences and focused debates will be presented.
  • In this sense, a percentage of blocks A and B will be devoted to master classes (percentage, which will be higher in section B). On the other hand, the teaching methodology will also be based on other types of directed activity that in Block A will be integrated by case studies, simulations or role playing, as well as exhibitions by the students. As for Block B, several seminar sessions will be devoted to the preparation and effective realization and subsequent debate of case law related to the subject.

Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.

Activities

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Discussion of case law (Block B) 6 0.24 2, 3, 11, 12, 9, 1, 18
Lectures 19.5 0.78 4, 15
Role playing 4 0.16 2, 4, 3, 6, 11, 10, 12, 1, 18, 15
Seminars 9.5 0.38 2, 4, 10, 12, 1, 16, 18
Students presentations 5 0.2 4, 6, 11, 1, 16, 17, 15
Type: Autonomous      
Essays 34 1.36 4, 9, 1, 17, 15
Reading of papers, case law and writting of summaries 32 1.28 4, 11, 17
Training of expositions 35 1.4 12, 9, 1, 17

Assessment

Assessment criteria:

- The evaluation will start from the two blocks of the subject that will be worth 50% each. To pass the course it will be necessary to obtain a minimum grade of 4 in block A and in block B, which will average the other block. The course will be approved when the average of the grade obtained from the two blocks is equal to or greater than 5. The weighting of the different activities will be done according to the following table:

Block A (50 per 100)

Evidence

Mark in the Block

Exam

20 %

Case study

15 %

Role playing

30 %

Presentations

35 %

Block B (50 per 100)

Evidence

Mark in the Block

Exam

60 %

Continuous assessment of practical activities

40 %

Remarks on assessment on block B

The theoretical exam, with a value of 60 points, will consist of two parts:

  • The first, which will have a value of 18 points, will be composed of 3 development questions. In order to be able to make an average with the test score, in the development questions part, a minimum score of 7 points out of 18 must be drawn.
  • The second part, which will have a value of 42 points, will be composed of 14 questions teston all the matter explained in class. Attention: there may also be questions about the topic subject of development question. Each right question will have a value of 3 points and each mistake will deduct 0.5 points.
  • As a whole, so that the global mark of the theoretical exam can be done by average with the practical note, it will be necessary to obtain a minimum of 23 points over 60.

Class attendance regulations

1. Attendance is 100% compulsory. If a student does not attend a minimum of 80% of the teaching activities, they cannot be evaluated. Throughout the semester attendance list will be passed in each session of Social intervention Networks. For the purposes of assessing attendance, a maximum of 10 percent of the grade will be deducted from the final grade, in the event that unexcused absences have reached 20%. If the unjustified assists are of lesser volume, the reduction criteria will be applied proportionally.

2. Excused absences cannot compute negatively. For an absence to be excused, it must be documented. Only absent due to force majeure such as illness or similar situations that prevent attending the educational activities can be justified absences. The realization of other training activities of the degree may be considered excused absence if previously accepted by the teacher responsible for the subject.

3.Classes start on time. Entry to class is not allowed once it has started.

Fraudulent conducts

- A student who copies or tries to copy an exam will have a 0 in the subject and will lose the right to re-assessment. A student who submits a practice in which there is evidence of plagiarism or who cannot justify the arguments of his practice will receive a warning; in case it repeats this conduct will be able to obtain a maximum of approved to the asignatura. A second recidivism will lead to a 0 in the subject and the student will lose the right to re-evaluation.

Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Case study 27 per 100 1 0.04 3, 7, 5, 12, 8, 14, 1, 17, 15
Exam 40 per 100 1 0.04 13, 9, 1
Expositions 18 per 100 1.5 0.06 4, 6, 1, 16, 17, 15
Role playing 15 per 100 1.5 0.06 2, 4, 3, 6, 11, 10, 12, 14, 18, 15

Bibliography

Block A

Compulsory bibliography

  • Bartolomé, M., Campo, J., Massot, M.I. & Vila, R. (2009). Elaboració d’un programa orientat al desenvolupament de la ciutadania intercultural a través del treball amb xarxes comunitàries: un estudi de cas. Polítiques públiques, percepció ciutadana i materials d’acollida. Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament d’Acció Social i Ciutadania. Secretaria per a la Immigració.  http://diposit.ub.edu/dspace/bitstream/2445/21837/6/239041.pdf
  • Gil, F., Alcover, C. M., Rico, R. & Sánchez-Manzanares, M. (2011). Nuevas formas de liderazgo en equipos de Trabajo. Papeles del Psicólogo, 32(1), 38-47.   http://redalyc.uaemex.mx/redalyc/pdf/778/77817210005.pdf
  • Ubieto, J. R. (2009). El trabajo en red. Usos posibles en Educación, Salud Mental y Servicios Sociales. Gedisa.
  • Vidal, M., Vialart, M. N., Hernandez, L. & Meilan, A. (2011). Trabajo en red. Educación Médica Superior, 25(3), 372-388.  http://scielo.sld.cu/pdf/ems/v25n3/ems15311.pdf

Complement Bibliography

  • Palomo, M. T. (2010). Liderazgo y motivación de equipos de trabajo. ESIC.
  • Sánchez, S. (2019). Tú decides, tú cambias, tú vives. AMAZON.

 Block B

Compulsory bibliography

  • Esteban, R. (2008). La Ley estatal de empresasde inserción. Comentario a alguna de sus aportaciones más significativas, Boletín del Centro de Iniciativas de Economía Social,  26, 1-9.
  • Esteban, R. (2014). Propuestas de mejora en la protección por desempleo durante la permanencia en prisión y tras la excarcelación., Nueva Revista Española de Derecho del Trabajo, 167, 3-7 & 12-23.
  • Fernández, P. (2006). El trabajo de los internos en establecimientos penitenciarios (pp. 326-337). Tirant lo Blanch.
  • Aguilar, V. J. (2015). Explotación laboral de las personas privadas de libertad. Blog CGAE. https://www.abogacia.es/2015/11/12/explotacion-laboral-de-las-personas-privadas-de-libertad/

Additional  questions about the basic bibliography

Given the complexity and extent given to some subjects in the basic manual of labor law and social security, in some respects and as a complement to the explanations given in class will be posted informative documents of public administrations in the field of employment and social protection.

On the other hand, the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court and the judicial doctrine of Superior Courts of Justice worked in practical class is a useful material for the preparation of the labor part.

Complementary Bibliography on Labor Law and Social Security

The Supplementary Bibliography aims to facilitate acces to documents that addres aspects of the subject in great detail. In some cases, these are sociological studies cited in class.

It is unnecessary material for student assessment. However, it can help to resolve doubts or give a clearer view of the labor and social protection reality of the prison or ex-prison population. In other words, it aims to provide information for those students who want to answer questions about mayoral issues of complexity or be curious to consult non-legal documents cited in class.

 

  • Aguilera, R. (2009). El régimen jurídico de las empresas de inserción. Thomson/Cívitas.
  • Colectivo IOE (2001). Inserción laboral de la población reclusa en la Comunidad de Madrid. http://www.colectivoioe.org/index.php/publicaciones_investigaciones/show/id/34
  • Esteban, R. (1996). Comentario a algunos aspectos conflictivos de la renta mínima de inserción. In: J López (Ed.): Seguridad Social y protección social: temas de actualidad. Marcial Pons.
  • Fernández, P. (2006). El trabajo de los internos en establecimientos penitenciarios. Tirant lo Blanch.
  • Gil, J. (2011). Vicisitudes del trabajo penitenciario: suspensión y extinción. Revista Española de Derecho del Trabajo, 150, 467-510.
  • Miguélez, F., Alós-Moner, R., Martín, A., & Gibert, F. (2007). Trabajar en prisión. Icaria.
  • Palomino, P.(2006). La relación laboral especial de penados en instituciones penitenciarias: cuestiones cruciales. Aranzadi Social, 16(5), 587-602
  • Subirats, J. (2004). Pobreza y exclusión social. Fundación la Caixa.
  • Vallecillo M. R. & Molina, C. (2008). Empresas de inserción y mercados de trabajo inclusivos. Comares.

Software

No specific software is required to take the course.