Class Education and Prevention

Prevention constitutes a priority core of criminological work, whether as a political criminal or as a means of integrating children and youth populations. Education plays a role here primary function, as it is at school - or in its absence - that prevention is put into practice execution. At the same time, a course that addresses the relationship between education and prevention represents an important axis in this field of Criminology.

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Formal and informal education. The school as an educational and disciplinary device. Education and instruction. Education for citizenship. The educational process and its relevance to active life and the acquisition of civic skills. Risk situations, behaviors and circumstances: notion; diagnosis of problematic situations. Main risk objects. Protection and risk factors. Prevention: notion; species. Operationalization of prevention. From the prevention of a single risky behavior to integrated prevention: rationale. Especially vulnerable segments. Risk actors and scenarios and prevention strategies. The school and the family as preventive agents. Situational crime prevention: concept; main theoretical lines. Methodology: strategies: CPTED (Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design). Community prevention: concept; main theoretical currents. Public policies. Planning and implementing prevention programs and their evaluation.

In this UC, in addition to the expositive component, one classe will be held in the street, resulting in travel to areas of the city to observe situations and risk behaviors. At the same time, they will be invited to participate in classes for prevention technicians who operate in problematic contexts. The assessment is divided into the work carried out, with participation in three initiatives promoted or supported by the course being mandatory, with the preparation of a report for each activity (50%) and the completion of a frequency (50%).

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