Researchs in Criminal Psychopathology : Methodes, Practices, Stakes

lcrim2506  2024-2025  Louvain-la-Neuve

Researchs in Criminal Psychopathology : Methodes, Practices, Stakes
6.00 credits
30.0 h
Q2

  This learning unit is not open to incoming exchange students!

Language
French
Prerequisites

The prerequisite(s) for this Teaching Unit (Unité d’enseignement – UE) for the programmes/courses that offer this Teaching Unit are specified at the end of this sheet.
Main themes
- Specify what is understood by pathological psychology, what are the theorico-clinical requirements of the subject and the consequences of the approach in the debate with the juridical subjects, notably in the matter of responsibility and guilty.
Investigate various fields of psychopathology :
- their diversities of forms and figures;
- what, in the human existence, becomes pathological ;
- what are the stakes and dynamic processes ;
- in what are they likely to cause delinquent and/or deviant expression.
The fields to be explored are these of contact disorders, sexual inversion and perversion, neurotic conflictualities and psychotic deterioration.
Learning outcomes

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

1 At the end of the course, the students should be able to :
- understand how and why the different forms of the psychopathology are likely to participate to the emergence of various modalities of delinquency and/or deviancy ;
- grasp the respective points of view in the debate between jurists and specialists on psychic pathology on the matter of an eventual part of pathology in the delinquency ;
- conceive the pertinent research approaches in this field ;
- consider how the social integration and the implications in the delinquency can lead to psychopathological disorders.
 
Content
    
This research course consists of the transmission of theoretical elements related to a specific theme (i.e. Unmotivated crime, mass crime, crime and adolescence, crime and ideology, etc.). On this basis, each student will have to work from a case and scientific literature. Course sessions will be devoted to this group work.
Teaching methods
Theorical course, readings and discussions.
Evaluation methods
Individual written work presented orally during the last course sessions.
Faculty or entity


Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Learning outcomes
Master [120] in Criminology