PSYC1068-1 : Delinquent personalities and delinquent trajectories

Study Programmes 2016-2017

PSYC1068-1

Delinquent personalities and delinquent trajectories

Duration :

30h Th

Number of credits :

Master in criminology (120 ECTS)		3
Master in psychology : general (120 ECTS)		3
University certificate in clinical psychology with a focus on psychopathology		3

Lecturer :

Fabienne Glowacz

Language(s) of instruction :

French language

Organisation and examination :

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents :

This course is structured around three study fields
- Delinquent's personalities
Psycho-social and developmental approach to crime
Criminal personality theories
Crime and psychopathology
- Delinquent trajectories from childhood to adulthood
Risk factors, protection factors
Recurrence, dangerousness
Desistance and resiliency
- "Clinic of the delinquent person"
Meet and historicizing a path: life story, clinical care, treatment plan, prospects for rehabilitation, ...
Evaluation: clinical assessment tools / actuarial, criminogenesis of acting out

Learning outcomes of the learning unit :

-Provide all relevant data on the evolution of different psychological models and approaches to crime and offenders trajectories.
- Provide clinical tool in the evaluation and analysis of situations of minor and adult involved in delinquency

Prerequisite knowledge and skills :

None

Planned learning activities and teaching methods :

Presentations of theoretical models and datas.
Active participation of students during the course on the basis of presentations and case files clinics
Subgroup exercises
Visit in IPPJ and prison

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

Face-to-face
First semester