Cursos / 2º Ciclo / Faculty of Law :: Criminology

DIREITO PROCESSUAL PENAL (AVANÇADO) - 2022/2023

1º curricular year
Semestralidade: 2nd semester
ECTS: 7.5

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutora Maria Leonor Esteves
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutora Raquel Cardoso

Class type and School hours

Orientação Tutorial : 1 Horas
Teórica : 1 Horas

Teaching Language

Portuguese

Main Aims/Objectives

Provide students with the possibility of a profound reflection about fundamental issues of the Course

Specific Aims/Objectives

Foster research and the ability to discuss and relate theoretical issues to resolution of hypotheses practices

Skills to be acquired

Spirit of synthesis
Understanding work-related curriculum at UC
Ability to relate various works in the context of the programmatic content of the UC
Ability to prepare written reports
Capacity for oral presentation of reports

Teaching Procedures

Previous study of the issues exposed by Professor.
Reporting under the guidance of Professor
Oral presentation of reports and subsequent discussion

Programme

Criminal Procedure in a Rule of Law. In search of (possible) balances between the antinomic demands of security and justice in the face of crime in a contemporary global society.
Preliminary questions.
1.1.1 The purposes of criminal procedural law in its inextricable relationship with the function of criminal law and the purposes of criminal penalties.
1.1.2 Criminal law and criminal procedure, criminal policy, and criminology. The Joint Science of Criminal Law.
1.1.3. Criminal procedural law as the practical application of constitutional law.
1.2 The model(s) of criminal policy in the face of serious crime, economic-financial crime, transnational organized crime, particularly terrorism, and its difficult compatibility with the purpose of criminal procedural law to protect fundamental individual rights and liberties.
1.3 The defendant, both as a subject of the case endowed with intangible dignity and as an object of the evidence. Means of obtaining evidence - the principle of legality and the principle nemo tenetur se ipsum accusare.
1.4. The "penetration" of the victim in the criminal process. Precedents of a new criminal policy paradigm and its consequences on criminal procedural law.
2. Criminal procedural law and technosciences.

Evaluation Type

Presentation report writing
Oral presentation of report

Teaching Resources

Library general and specialized

Sustainability Objectives

Keywords

Rule of law
Human dignity
Purposes of criminal procedural law
Defendant
Evidence
Victim
Technosciences

Main Bibliography

Complementary Bibliography