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Teaching is concentrated in the faculties and schools, and the departments deal with research, which is also conducted by institutes and chairs, at the same time responsible for knowledge promotion.
Constitutional organization of the State and the system of sources.
Introduction to the basic concepts of the discipline.Jurisdiction, action and process.Study of the constitutional principles that affect the three fundamental concepts.Study of the judicial institutions and their competences and functions.Study of the principles of process and procedure.Study of procedural events.
The law as a social phenomenon: types of regulatory systems.The social functions of the law: social control, security and justice.Juridical rule: types of rules.The juridical system.The dynamics of juridical systems.The fundamental juridical concepts.Juridical interpretation: linguistic problems and theories of juridical interpretation.The application of the law.Concepts of the law.
What is criminology?Criminology methods.Criminological theories: classical school, biological positivist school, sociological schools, labelling and critical criminology theory, new theories.Analysis of criminality: Study of specific criminal behaviour of common criminality and white-collar criminality.Crime prevention in the community and security policies.How the penal system works: the police, judicial and prison systems and non-custodial sentences.Restorative justice.Criminal policy: principles that should guide this and case studies.
Scientific knowledge and common sense. Epistemology and scientific method.Quantitative/qualitative dichotomy.Methodological integration.Research process.Problem, hypothesis, variables and methodological strategy.Quantitative and qualitative techniques of social research.Production of data and research from statistical sources.Concepts and basic measures of descriptive and inferential statistics.Test of hypothesis.Introduction to the analysis of statistical data through the SPSS/WIN computer program.Preparation and analysis of statistical tables and graphs.Corroboration of hypotheses.Interpretation of results.
Political Economy: concept and method; Analysis of markets: the model of perfect competence and the failures of the market; Models and macro-economic attachés; Analysis of the economic cycle and the economic policy; The main results: unemployment, inflation, growth, and development; The current economic reality.
THE SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE; INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY: PROCESSES OF SOCIALISATION AND INSTITUTIONALISATION; STRUCTURE AND SOCIAL CHANGES; CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL PROCESSES
Basic knowledge of anthropology in the research, knowledge and explanation of legal phenomena.Study of different anthropological models of society, which appear as a legal response to its basic problems: subsistence, inequality, power, family, religion, etc.
The policy and its fundamental elements.Structures and actors of the policy.
Origin, evolution and structure of the European Union.The Treaty of Amsterdam and the new objective of the space of freedom, security and justice.The contributions of the Treaty of Nice and the Treaty of Lisbon.Competences of the EU and the application of European Union Law.The protection of fundamental rights and freedoms.The Schengen agreements: Frontex.Police cooperation: Europol.Judicial cooperation: Eurojust.The fight against terrorism and organised crime.Mutual recognition of evidence among member states.Cooperation between member states to obtain evidence and seize goods.European exhortation to obtain evidence.Applying deprivation of liberty and sanction resolutions in the AXIS.Extradition and handover of people within member states.The European arrest warrant.Resolving conflicts of jurisdiction between member states.The “non bis in idem” principle: that judged as criminal in the AXIS.The Statute of the Victim in the AXIS.Guarantees of the accused in the AXIS.
1.Historical development.Dimensions, psychological schools and areas of intervention.2.Biological bases of human behaviour: Phylogenesis and ontogenesis, Inheritance-environment and development.3.Basic psychological processes: Attention, Perception, Memory, Learning and Emotion.4.Personality.5.Social thought.Attitudes.Interpersonal relations.6.Social identity.Maintenance, reproduction and social change.7.Introduction to group psychology.
The penal process.Resemblances and differences between the penal process and the civil process.Main institutions of the penal process: object and parts in the penal process.The dynamics of the penal process: instruction, intermediate phase, oral judgement, sentence, appeals and execution.Ordinary penal processes.Special penal processes.The criminal process as a guarantee of accountability.Specific guarantees in the criminal process for criminologists.
The bases of criminal responsibility: the General Theory of Crime.The elements of the penal responsibility: genuineness (objective and subjective aspect of the penal responsabitat), antijuricitat (causes of justification of the behaviour) and guilt (causes of exclusion from the guilt).
Brief history of criminological knowledge.The Classical School of Criminal Law.Individualist theories: positivist theories.Social theories: The Chicago school, anomie theory, labelling theory, control theory, evolutionary theory, critical criminology, current and future approaches to criminology
Social conflict.Problems and difficulties.Tools for intervening in social conflict.Handling escalating situations.Stabilising social conflicts.Processes to generate de-escalation.Mediator intervention in the process.
General features of the different families of judicial systems.How judicial culture works in ordinary and extraordinary law practices.Social powers and forms of control.Emergent and directed social changes.Conflicts between the marginality and centrality of judicial ideas.Judicial complexity and knowledge.
Origin of the political-criminal debate.Its relation with Criminal Law and Criminology.Criminal policy models in the western world in the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.The introduction of illustration.Humanistic models.Democratic models.Crisis of traditional models.Expansion of penal control and the risk society.Penal model of Security and Criminal Law of the enemy.Future perspectives for a model social welfare crime policy.
Prison as an institution of social control: the role of prison in contemporary society.Prison Law: rights and duties of inmates.
General characteristics of the Spanish penal system.Penal theories and punitive models in action.Custodial sentences; in particular prison and the Spanish prison system.Alternative sentences to prison: bases and problems, in particular, fines, community service, probation, substitution and suspended sentences.The present and future of the Spanish penal system.
1.The relationship between psychology and law 2.Psychosocial intervention in the field of criminology 3.Institutions and organisations in criminal intervention: the structures and processes involved 4.Individual (criminal, police, judge) and collective (courts and jury) decision-making in judicial-penal contexts.5. Individual differences and violence.Psychological disorders.Psychopathy 6.Victimisation 7. Witness psychology.Psychological evaluation.
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