2018-2019 / 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 crédits 

Lecturer

Pierre Thys

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the second semester

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit 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 learning unit

- 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.

Recommended or required readings

must have : THYS Pierre, Criminels de guerre, Etude criminologique, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2007.
This books contain the key topics.
 Additionnal notes (English-French) are also provided
 
Useful : Thys (dir) Les armes à létalité réduite, Paris L'Harmattan, 2010

Assessment methods and criteria

Based on the written teamwork presentation
 
No teamwork give no examination

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Contacts

E-mail: pierre.thys@ulg.ac.be
Mobile : 0471/730.862