Study Programmes 2016-2017
| CRIM3098-1 | ||
| Introduction to victimology | ||
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Duration :
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| 30h Th | ||
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Number of credits :
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Lecturer :
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| Serge Garcet | ||
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language | ||
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the first semester, review in January | ||
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Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
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| Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program | ||
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Learning unit contents :
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| The course approaches victimology through ex cathedra courses handling the following subjects:
1) Emergence of the concept of victimology:
- Definitions - Historical approach: analysis of victim's position in the trial. - Sociological approach: analysis of the increasing victim's representations in our contemporary societies. - Semantic approach: analysis of the evolution of the concept, the implicit contents (in particular symbolic and religious contents) in current definitions. 2) Criminological approach in victimology: - Analysis of the main currents in victimology (the first scientific victimologist, the feminist contestation, victimization surveys, the current approaches). 3) Victimology in Belgium: - Institutional Analysis of resources helping victims of criminal acts in Belgium. |
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Learning outcomes of the learning unit :
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| - Gain a good basic knowledge of the field of victimology and understand concerns related to victims in a criminological perspective.
Being able to link knowledge in a transverse reading and to restitute in a synthetic and integrated manner. |
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Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
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| no prerequisites | ||
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| No workshops | ||
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| - Lectures; | ||
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Will be available on-line: - a detailed course contents - lectures slides - readings - a list of sources of victimological information | ||
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Written exam first session
Oral exam second session |
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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| No remarks. | ||
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Contacts :
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| Teacher:
Serge GARCET
Building B33 (Trifac), room 1/48
consulting hour: make an appointment
serge.garcet@ulg.ac.be
tel. 04/366 39 20
Assistant: Noémie Eloy Bâtiment B33 (Trifac), noemie.eloy@ulg.ac.be tel. 04/366 28 15 Secretariat: Ms. Julie Debroux Building B33 (Trifac), j.debroux@ulg.ac.be tel. 04/366 31 59 |
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Items online :
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 | slides available online contents and some informations about the course "Victimology, an introduction" |
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