CRIM3116-1 : War Crime and religious or ideological abuses psycho-criminological Study

Study Programmes 2015-2016

CRIM3116-1

War Crime and religious or ideological abuses psycho-criminological Study

Duration :

15h Th, 15h Pr

Number of credits :

Master in criminology (120 ECTS)		3
Master in criminology (120 ECTS)		4

Lecturer :

Pierre Thys

Language(s) of instruction :

French language

Organisation and examination :

Teaching in the second semester

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Course contents :

The course is focused on war crimes, crimes against humanity 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 roles the influence of the social groups
Terror is related to these ideologiocal violences.

Learning outcomes of the course :

- 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 counter violence

Prerequisite knowledge and skills :

Planned learning activities and teaching methods :

Practical work in groups of 5 to 8 students are based on topics defined at the beginning of the course.
Each group makes a presentation.

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :

Feb - May, Wednesday in the afternoon Please check.