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| CRIM1216-1 | Psychology of the authors and the victims of violent acts | |||||||||||
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| Duration : | 30h Th | |||||||||||
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| Holder(s) : | Pierre Thys | |||||||||||
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| Course contents : | The course starts with an analysis of the violent behaviors in varied circumstances of the social life: family, school, public transport, spare-times activities. The course develops then less usual topics: political and religious violence, organized crime, war crimes and genocides. One seeks to understand: the limits between the normal and the pathological, the obedience to the authority, the weight of the personality or the social criconstances the influence of the medias and the crowds | |||||||||||
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| Course objective : | - to analyze the evolutions of the forms of violence (theoretical approach) - to identify the individual, psychological, social, moral, political factors which produce violences - to understand the importance of the environment - to understand the reactions of the victims of violence and to know the current means of treatment | |||||||||||
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| Prerequisites : | 2 lic criminology 2 & 3 lic psychology | |||||||||||
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| Workshops : | Practice is included - see organization below | |||||||||||
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| Organization : | jan - apr, Friday from 09.30 to 12.30. The students constitute working groups (8-10). Under the direction of the teacher, each group studies a situation of particular violence, collects documentation, prepares a text and a talk. Each group of student presents his work at the course and the more specific theoretical concepts are approached by the teacher. | |||||||||||
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| Written notes : | Notes are available on CD Rom Please contact Pierre Thys : pierre.thys@ulg.ac.be | |||||||||||
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| Assessment : | Work in group : 10 pts Oral examination : 10 pts | |||||||||||
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| Contacts : | Teacher: Wednesday PM (B 33 - 1° stage service of criminology) E-mail: pierre.thys@ulg.ac.be | |||||||||||
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ULg : Students and Studies Administration - Academic Affairs
Contact : Monique Marcourt, direction A.E.E.
Date of data : 27/02/2006
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