Criminal Psychology

Teacher(s)

Englebert Jérôme;

Language

French

Main themes

- To specify on what carries and of what the step of psychology consists to deal with the psychological significance of the delinquency.
- To locate its anthropological, epistemological and methodological bases.
- To question the difference delinquency not-delinquency.
- To distinguish clinical research and the scientific inquiry or the experimental investigation.

Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :
1	- To understand the contributions of psychology to the models and methods of criminology and the study of delinquency.

Content

The course is dedicated to the understanding of the man (offender). Beyond a consideration of the individual reduced to his criminal dimension, the basic objective consists in a study of the "man in situation" meeting the particularities of delinquency. Carrying out this complex task (and therefore proceeding to a series of deconstructions), consists in proceeding 1/ to an understanding of the prison experience, 2/ to an understanding of the delinquent individual and the criminological processes, 3/ to an understanding (through the practice of expertise) of the innocent or guilty subject, 4/ to an analysis of the history of the psychological understanding of delinquents. Final, 5/ a comprehensive analysis of Jonas case will be carried out.

Evaluation methods

Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the information in this section is particularly likely to change.

Written exam

Teaching materials

• Livre de référence : Englebert, J. (2013). Psychopathologie de l’homme en situation : Le corps du détenu dans l’univers carcéral. Paris : Hermann. Seconde édition 2017.

Faculty or entity

ECRI