2018-2019 / CRIM3111-1

Questions of victimology

Duration

30h Th

Number of credits

 Master in criminology (120 ECTS)5 crédits 

Lecturer

Serge Garcet

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

 Part I: Victims and Victimization Process
How we understand and deal with the world around us.
Authors / Victim Relations and Reciprocal Determinism of the Aggression / Victimization Process.
Part II: Psychic trauma
Understanding of psychic trauma (prevalence, characteristics, resilience).
Simple and complex trauma.
Types of acute and long-term post-traumatic consequences.
Part III: Integrative Approaches to Specific Victimization
 Victimization during childhood (abuse, sexual violence).
Victimization during adolescence (peer harassment, sexual violence).
Victimization during adulthood (domestic violence, sexual violence).
Specificity of victimization 2.0: the example of the slut-shaming and revenge porn.
Part IV: Institutional analyzes of aid resources in French-speaking Belgium
Police support services to victims.
Public Prosecutor's Office services.
Victim services.
The social network and mental health.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

Learn to know
Knowledge: Be able to define and describe different concepts.
Understanding: Being able to explain different forms of victimization, trauma and victim support structures.
Learn to do
Analysis: Be able to discriminate and distinguish salient features of different victimization situations.
Synthesis: Being able to compose an offer of help based on the informationprovided by the victim.
Synthesis: Be able to develop a thematic file from the literature on a victimological issue.
Learn to be
Be able to manage the deadlines in learnings and the requested works.
Be able to interact and to be proactively present at courses - case presentation.
Develop a critical sense.  

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

No prerequisite

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Informal lecture. Case presentation. Intervention of professionals. Personnal project.

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

Recommended or required readings

Will be available on-line on e-campus:
- Powerpoint slides before class.
- The list of recommended works.
Also available on e-campus for a deepening of the different content content: articles, references, multimedia, etc.

Assessment methods and criteria

In June, the assessment is constituted of a written exam on the subject dispensed which count for 60% of the final note and the assessment of the personal project (thematic file) which intervenes for 40%.
The thematic file consists in proposing, based on a victimological thematic made available in the form of a list at the beginning of the course, a personal angle of analysis(for example, the perception of the author by thefemale victims for the theme « domestic violence "). The next step is to build a file from at least five recent articles, three of which will be in English.
The September assessment is an oral exam on the subject taught and the thematic file.
Formative evaluation Various exercises related to analysis and synthesis skills will be offered on e-campus.

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Contacts

Teacher:
Serge GARCET
Building B33 (Trifac) make an appointment
serge.garcet@uliege.be
tel. 04/366 39 20
 
Assistant:
Noémie ELOY
Bâtiment B33 (Trifac)
noemie.eloy@uliege.be
tel. 04/366 28 15
 
Secretariat:
Ms. Julie Debroux
Building B33 (Trifac), room 1/5
j.debroux@uliege.be
tel. 04/366 31 59

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Questions in victimology
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