2023-2024 / CRIM3100-1

Criminal Psychopathology

Duration

45h Th

Number of credits

 Master in criminology (120 ECTS)5 crédits 
 Extra courses intended for exchange students (Erasmus, ...) (Faculty of Law, Political Science and Criminology)5 crédits 

Lecturer

Patrick Papart

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

After a short historical survey of legal psychiatry the course considers major psychiatric disorders and their possible relation to criminal and dangerous behaviour.
We will study in turn: psychoses, mood disorders, anxious disorders, organic mental disorders, disorders related to the absorption of psychoactive substances, disorders affecting the control of impulses, and paraphilia.
Cases in which the law that protect mental patients and the law on social defence apply are also discussed and illustrated with examples of psychiatric expertise.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

To study the relationship between mental diseases and dangerous and criminal behaviour.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Notions of psychiatry

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

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

Structure of the course: pwp projection with videos.
Répétitions : Further training for students: debates on the videos.

Recommended or required readings

Syllabus
Advised further reading:
Psychopathology and Violent Crime (A. Skodol, American Psychiatric Press, 1998).

Exam(s) in session

Any session

- In-person

written exam ( multiple-choice questionnaire )


Additional information:

Written examination

Work placement(s)

Organisational remarks and main changes to the course

In-person or distance learning (courses and exams): depending on the evolution of the covid-19 pandemic.

Contacts

- Teacher: Prof. P. PAPART, CHU Sart Tilman - 04/ 366 72 15 - Secretary: Mme R. Belhaddad, CHU Sart Tilman - 04/ 366 79 60

Association of one or more MOOCs