Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
Part I: Current considerations around the social issues associated with the victim: Place the victim in society: from the emergence of victimology to the victimhood temptation. Victim: symbolic and implicit spaces of a concept. Between scientific and militant approach: victim's drift and moral conservatism.
Part II: The victim in the criminal trial From revenge to oblivion: approach of the victim in the penal process.
Part III: Theories in victimology - Analysis of the main currents of thought in victimology The first scientific victimology. Feminist protest. The second victimology. How to explain victimizations according to the main criminological models?
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
Learn to know
Knowledge: Being able to define and describe different concepts. Understanding: Being able to explain issues related to the victim and victimization phenomena.
Learn to do
Synthesis: To be able to associate and reorganize the knowledge in a transversal and interdisciplinary undertstanding and to explain them in a synthetic and integrative approach.
Synthesis: To be able to situate the victimological question in a historical, philosophical, ideological and sociological perspective.
Assessment: Being able to question the construction of scientific knowledge in victimology from an epistemological perspective.
Learn to be
Be able to manage deadlines in learning.
Develop a critical sense.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
no prerequisites
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The learning is done through a lecture. It also relies on the provision of various resources and the reading of books dealing with the topics covered
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 January, the assessment is constituted of a multiple choices examination on the dispensed contents.
The September assessment is constituted of a multiple choices examination on the dispensed contents. on the same content.
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Contacts
Teacher:
Serge GARCET
Place des Orateurs, 1, Bât. B 33
4000 LIEGE (Sart-Tilman)
Sur rendez-vous
serge.garcet@uliege.be
tel. 04/366 39 20
Assistant:
Morgane Hovine
Place des Orateurs, 1, Bât. B 33
4000 LIEGE (Sart-Tilman)
morgane.hovine@uliege.be
tel. 04/366 30 13
Secretariat:
Julie Debroux
Place des Orateurs, 1, Bât. B 33
4000 LIEGE (Sart-Tilman)
j.debroux@uliege.be
tel. 04/366 31 59
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session
Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning
Assessment subjects
Assessment methods
The second session exam will be a MCQ type written exam.
Contacts
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the Aug-Sept 2020 session
Assessment subjects
Assessment methods
Contacts
Items online
slides available online
contents and some informations about the course "Victimology, an introduction"