Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2500257 Criminology | OB | 2 | 1 |
It's recommended to have passed the courses of Pedagogy and Introduction to Criminology.
The general objectives are the following:
Students of the criminology degree will be able to:
1. Applying the knowledge of criminological theories to the experiences of conflict and criminality, and suggest appropriate responses according to the existing legal framework.
2. Suggest answers to the problems of crime and social conflict, taking into account the rights and interests of all parties involved and considering the values of solving social conflicts, social integration and preventing new conflicts.
In this context, the subject of crime prevention programs have the following specific objectives:
1. Identify appropriate preventive measures for criminological problems
2. Know how to choose and implement properly the different models of crime prevention.
3. Design crime prevention programs
4. Apply criminological methods of research in the field of crime prevention.
1. Introduction
1.1. Basic concepts
1.2. Primary, secondary and tertiary crime prevention
2. Risk and Protection Analysis.
2.1. Static and dynamics risk factors.
2.2. Triple criminal risk
2.3. Needs detection.
Theoretical models of crime prevention
3. Classic and neoclassic model
4. Situational model
5. Ecological model
6. Developmental and social prevention. Micro-level
6.1. Family
6.2. School and peer groups
7. Developmental and social prevention. Macro-level
7.1. Community
7.2. Mass media
Crime prevention programs
8. Environmental prevention programs
9. Social prevention programs
10. Victim prevention programs
Cyber Crime. Cyber Prevention.
11. Cyber Crime. Methods and Models changes.
12. Social networking in prevention
The following methodologies will be used:
1. Lectures, with documents, videos and presentations.
2. Seminars in which students will present the progress in the group work, and cases studies will be discussed.
3. Students are advised to ask for tutorials to progress in the individual and group learning.
4. Individual assignments. Two individual essays.
5. Work group. Students need to elaborate and deliver a crime prevention program.
6. Individual work to prepare the exam (part one test with multiple choice and second part with different real cases to analyze)
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.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Lectures | 18 | 0.72 | 2, 5, 3, 14, 7, 15, 11, 12, 17, 1, 21, 22, 23, 18 |
Seminars | 18 | 0.72 | 2, 5, 3, 14, 7, 15, 11, 12, 17, 1, 21, 22, 23, 18 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Exam | 5 | 0.2 | 5, 9, 7, 1, 22, 18 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Group work (Search for material, discussion, presentation preparation) | 30 | 1.2 | 2, 5, 4, 3, 16, 9, 8, 14, 10, 7, 6, 15, 11, 12, 17, 1, 21, 22, 23, 18, 20 |
Work planning reading, reflection of materials and preparation of individual works. | 79 | 3.16 | 2, 5, 3, 9, 8, 14, 7, 6, 13, 15, 11, 12, 17, 1, 21, 22, 23, 18 |
Model of evaluation
Continuous evaluation model.
Conditions to be evaluated
Minimum attendance of 80% in lectures and seminars is compulsory. Justifications of non-attendance are only accepted for illness or similar reasons.
Students need to participate actively in lectures and seminars, as well as presenting the two individual assignments, the group reserarch project, and the final exam. Out of time submissions are not accepted.
Items of evaluation
Individual works (30%), Group work (30%), Final exam (30%), Assistance and participation (10%)
Requirements to pass the subject
Students need to obtain a minimum grade of 5 in each one of the assessment activities.
Resit
Students will have the opportunity to resit when they fail any of the assessed activities. The resit will be in the final exam and the maximum grade in case of resit is 7.
Consequences of fraud
Students that cheat or attempt to cheat in the exam will get a 0, losing the right to a second chance. Plagiarism will conduct to a fail of the essay and, in case of recidivism the student will receive a fail mark.
Punctuality
Classes start on time. Late arrival and leaving the class before the end is not admitted.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Attendance and participation | 10% | 0 | 0 | 2, 5, 3, 14, 7, 15, 11, 12, 17, 1, 21, 22, 23, 18 |
Final Exam | 30% | 0 | 0 | 2, 5, 3, 16, 9, 14, 7, 15, 11, 12, 17, 1, 21, 22, 23, 18 |
Group research project | 30% | 0 | 0 | 2, 5, 4, 3, 9, 8, 14, 10, 7, 6, 15, 11, 12, 17, 19, 1, 21, 22, 23, 18, 20 |
Individual assignments (2) | 30% | 0 | 0 | 2, 5, 3, 8, 14, 7, 13, 15, 11, 12, 17, 1, 21, 22, 23, 18 |
MANDATORY READINGS
Medina, J. (2011). La prevención del delito. Políticas y estrategias de prevencion del delito y seguridad ciudadana. (pp.1-43). Edisofer Ed.
Redondo, S. (2015). Confluencia de riesgos: Una teoría Criminológica Unificada. El Origen de los Delitos (pp. 209-269). Tirant lo Blanch Ed.
San-Juan, C. & Vozmediano, L. (2021). Guía de prevención del delito. (pp.1-61) Bosch Ed.
Velasco de la Fuente, P (2021). Homo Criminalis: el crimen a un clic: los nuevos riesgos de la sociedad actual. (pp 315-399). Ed. Ariel
COMPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY
Cid, J. & Larrauri, E. (2001). Teorías criminológicas: explicación y prevención de la delincuencia. Bosch Ed.
Farrington, D. & Welsh, B. (2008). Saving childrem from a Life of Crime: Early Risk Factors and Effective Interventions. Oxford University Press. Ed.
Lab, S. P. (2014). Evaluation and Crime Prevention. Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practices, and Evaluations (pp.35-50) (8th edition) Routledge. Taylor & Francis Group. Ed.
Moreno, F. X. (2000). Diagnóstico de los factores de riesgo como recurso preventivo de los problemas de conducta en el contexto escolar. Revista electrónica Convenid II, .29-44
Panchón, C. (1998). Manual de pedagogía de la inadaptación social. Dulac Ed.
Pincus, J. H. (2003). Instintos básicos. Oberon Ed.
Redondo, S. & Garrido, V. (2013).Principios de criminologia. Tirant lo Blanch Ed.
Redondo, S. & Sanchez-Meca, J. Garrido, V. (2002). Los programas psicológicos con delincuentes y su efectividad: la situacion europea. Psicotema, 14(1, extra), 164-173.
Rojas, L. (2004). Las semillas de la conducta violenta. Espasa Calpe Ed.
Vázquez, C. (2003) Predicción y prevención de la delincuencia juvenil según las teorías del desarrollo social (social development theories). Revista de derecho, 14, 135-158 Retrieved from: http://revistas.uach.cl/index.php/revider/article/view/2727.
Welsch, B. & Farrington, D. (2012) The Oxford Handbook of Crime Prevention. Oxford University Press Ed.
Virtual Campus of UAB. Moodle classroom.