Clinical approaches in criminology [DROIB328]
Learning outcomes
To enable law students to critically orient themselves in the different clinical approaches in criminology, the collaborative arrangements between law, psychiatry and psychology, and the various recourse to expert "psychology" discourses. For students intending to do a Master's degree in criminology, to prepare them for specific courses in clinical criminology: criminal psychology, criminological psychiatry, psychoanalysis and criminology, treatment of delinquency, etc.
Content
The course will examine the different ways of clinically accounting for crime, transgression and violence. In introduction, the terms will be specified in their various dimensions. The first part of the course will focus on four major clinical approaches, specifying the historical development, the epistemological modalities, the contributions and the limits of each approach: - clinic of the "perpetrator", his characteristics and personality - clinic of the "criminal act", its mode of deployment and its logic, from the premises to the act - clinic of the "actor of the crime" and of the social reaction, the relational and identifying dynamics that are established - the clinic of the criminal "subject", in particular the unconscious determinants of crime, responsibility, the dialectic of freedom and determinism. The second part of the course, based on comments on texts, will address specific themes such as: violence in adolescence, parricide and infanticide, sexual violence, ... The criminogenesis and the implications for practice will be clarified; the notions of dangerousness and responsibility will be discussed
Teaching methods
The approach and materials of the course will include: - the commentary of a selection of texts on specific problems, allowing to specify the approach of such or such current of the criminological clinic, to locate the epistemological stakes and the articulations established with the other disciplines of human sciences.
Evaluations
Oral examination preceded by a written preparation, including : - a compulsory question on a theme seen in the course - and the presentation of an essay on a question chosen by the student for the interest he/she has found in it. In addition to the assimilation of knowledge and the precision in the use of concepts, the evaluation criteria will essentially focus on the understanding of the issues at stake and the ability to deploy a critical reasoning.
Recommended readings
A syllabus is provided at the beginning of the course with an introductory chapter and a chapter devoted to each of the modes of approach to crime. A reading booklet is also reproduced for the students, including for the year 2009-2010: - Dr Pereira (1845) " De la monomanie Homicide invoquée comme moyen de défense dans le procès criminel de Blottin ", Annales médicopsychologiques, 1845, nº 05 - Falret (1854) " De la non-existence de la monomanie Abraham K (1919) "Histoire d'un escroc à la lumière des données de la psychanalyse" - Aichhorn A. (1939) "Éducation des enfants asociaux" IN Cliniques de la délinquance, champ social édition, Nîmes, 2007 - (extracts from) Kammerer P (2000)" Adolescents dans la violence", Gallimard - (extracts from) Gutton Ph (2002) "Adolescence et violence", IN PRESS - Documents on the case of Pierre Rivière, completed with extracts from Adolescents dans la violence ", Gallimard - (extracts from) Gutton Ph (2002) " Adolescence et violence ", IN PRESS - Documents on the case of Pierre Rivière, completed with extracts from the study of Marty Fr. (1999) " Filiation, parricide et psychose à l'adolescence, les liens du sang ", érès.
Language of instruction
French / FrançaisLocation for course
NAMUROrganizer
Faculté de droitRue de Bruxelles, 61
5000 NAMUR
Degree of Reference
Undergraduate Degree| Block | Credits | |
|---|---|---|
| Bachelier en droit | 2 | 3 |
| Bachelier en droit | 3 | 3 |
