Class Criminalization and Juspsychological Intervention

This course, based on knowledge obtained in Legal and Forensic Psychology, aims to students understand the meaning of the act and the process of criminalization, know the respective phases, the actors who pontificate in them and are capable of tracing the punitive trajectory. The right perspective psychological, in the logic of scientific intercontribution, is the matrix for reading and analyzing discourses of the criminalization actors, understanding the messages exchanged, the sharing of information and the effects of the same on the configuration of the criminalized process.

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.Criminalization: concept and object. Act and process. Process phases. Social actors and scenarios. Historicity and geography of criminalization. The law: discourses and intradiscourses. From the transgressed law to the law applied. Discursive interactions: reciprocal interference of discourses and practices. Circularity of messages and contribution to the criminalizing architecture. Psychocriminal and legalpsychological analysis of discursive interactions. Fluctuations in the criminalizing axis. Juspsychological intervention and formal control devices. Informal reaction and the possibilities of intervention. Juspsychological intervention programs: transversality.

The assessment is distributed across the following elements: (a) attendance at theoretical, practical and theoretical-practical classes, and participation in them; (b) attendance at all sessions indicated by teachers, with the preparation of a short piece of work in class (40%); (c) completion of a frequency (60%). For the purposes of weighting the assessment, paragraph (b) requires participation and preparation of a report in all sessions, with a maximum number of 3.

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