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Study programmes 2013-2014Last update : 13/05/2014
CRIM3111-1  Questions of victimology

Duration :  30h Th
Number of credits :  
Master in Criminology, Reserach Focus, 2nd year3
Master in Criminology, Professional Focus, 2nd year3
Lecturer :  Serge Garcet
Language(s) of instruction :  
French language
Organisation and examination :  
Teaching in the second semester
Course contents :  
  The course is a deepening of the victimological approach through ex cathedra courses covering the following subjects : Part I: Victims and victimization process.
1)       Development of the relation to the world:
-          A socio-cognitive perspective
-          The victim-perpetrator relationship
-          Risk and Protective Factors
2)       Victims' expectations and secondary victimization:
-          Needs for legal and social recognition.
-          Needs for material and psychic reparation.
-          Secondary victimization
-          Evaluation of the mechanism that takes care of victims and prevention services.
Part II:  Victims and Psychological Trauma
3)       Psychological Trauma:
-          History and theories of trauma
-          Actuals models of post-traumatic stress disorder
-          Types of traumatic events
-          Types post-traumatic consequences: definition, prevalence, symptoms.
-           Post-traumatic stress disorder, chronic evolution and associated disorder, dissociative reaction, personality change.
-          Childhood trauma
-          Treatments of trauma
Part III: Integrated approach of specific types of victimization
4)       Specific types of victimization:
-          Types of repeated interpersonal victimization
-          Violence in childhood (mistreatment, sexual abuse)
-          Adult violence (Domestic and sexual violence)
Type I trauma (single event), with or without sexual violence
Learning outcomes of the course :  
 


Acquire complements of knowledge in victimology.
- Master current knowledge on differents types of victimization.
- Master different formal mechanisms that help and accompanied victims.
Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :  
prerequisite: Introduction à la victimologie
Planned learning activities and teaching methods :  
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :  
- Lectures
Recommended or required readings :  
Will be available on-line:
-          Course contents
-          Lectures slides
-          Mandatory readings
List of information sources related to victimology.
Assessment methods and criteria :  
- A Group work on a set theme will be part of the course evaluation.
- Written exam in first session
- Oral examination in second session
Work placement(s) :  
Organizational remarks :  
Contacts :  
Teacher:
Serge GARCET
Building B33 (Trifac), room 1/42
consulting hour: make an appointment serge.garcet@ulg.ac.be
tel. 04/366 39 20
 
Assistant:
Thomas PERICK
Bâtiment B33 (Trifac), local 1/1
thomas.perick@ulg.ac.be
tel. 04/366 28 15
 
Secretariat:
Ms. Julie Debroux
Building B33 (Trifac), room 1/5
j.debroux@ulg.ac.be
tel. 04/366 31 59


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