Introduction to victimology

Duration

30h Th

Number of credits

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: 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

Learning is carried out through a lecture alternating every other week face-to-face and virtualy (Unicast). It is also based on the availability of various resources and the reading of books dealing with the subjects addressed. Depending on the evolution of the health situation, learning would be given remotely through resources on e-campus.

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

See the previous point

Organisational adjustments related to the current health context

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

Below you will find information on the evaluation methods planned for in-person and remote exams as well as those planned for hybrid sessions. Depending on how the health crisis evolves, the chosen method will be communicated to you no later than one month before the start of the exam session.

Any session :

- In-person

written exam

- Remote

written exam ( multiple-choice questionnaire )

- If evaluation in "hybrid"

preferred remote


Additional information:

In January, the assessment is constituted of a multiple choices examination on the dispensed contents face-to-face or remotely depending on health conditions. The September assessment is constituted of a multiple choices examination on the dispensed contents. on the same content face-to-face or remotely depending on health conditions.

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

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