Researchs in Criminal Psychopathology : Methodes, Practices, Stakes
[CRIM2506]
[30h] 6 credits
Teacher(s): Jean Kinable
Language: French
Level: Second
Aims
- 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.
Main themes
- 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.
Content and teaching methods
To study various psychopathological dimensions and to look into the following items : the diversity of forms and figures according to these dimensions; which fields of human existence are likely to be "pathologised", which dynamical processes are under these productions of forms and figures, why they are likely to produce criminal behaviours (delinquency as well as deviance).
Research fields are : disorders of "contact" and attachment, inversions and sexual perversions, neurotics conflicts and psychotics impairing.
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