PSB_550 Actual issues of Legal psychology

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2009
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Soňa Haluzová (lecturer), PhDr. Pavel Humpolíček, Ph.D. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Zdenka Stránská, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jarmila Valchářová
Timetable
Thu 15:50–17:25 L31
Prerequisites
PSA_0SZ Comprehensive Examination
Bachelor degree exam including 4 subjects: general psychology, metodology of psychology, psychopatology, developmental psychology.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 45 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/45, only registered: 0/45
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Course objectives: this course is aimed at getting knowledge about problems of the boundary between psychology and law, and curentlly at looking for the answers to actual social problems concerning particularly the violance and its other forms.
Syllabus
  • 1. Victimology and victimisation – typology of victims, primary and secondary harm, experiencing damage, impact of criminal act on victim, posttraumatic stress disorder and risk of its development in conection with criminal act, revictimisation, providing help in a situation of heaviness, treating crime victims etc., Stockholm syndrome, the activities of Bílý kruh bezpečí
  • 2. Grafiti – kind of art protest against the consumer society or product of vandalism?, vandalism as a destructive and liquidating behaviour
  • 3. Squatting – legal × psychological point of view, solidarity and understanding × disillusion and disenchantment
  • 4. Extremist violance – violance at football stadiums, „Czechs to Czechs ?“,
  • 5. Emo style of young generation – emo and searching for one’s own identity, boundary between the sadness and suicide
  • 6. School shooting and massacre – term definition, profile of the offender, attachment theory, prediction and prevention of violance, amok alarm
  • 7. Amok from the forensic psychological point of view – offender’s „social death“, Whitman syndrome
  • 8. Domestic violance – causes and roots of domestic violance, problems of defining psychological torture, battered woman syndrome (BWS), law n. 135/2006 Sb. (expulsion institute)
  • 9. Children and domestic violance – mother with children escape from domestic violance, children standing by police actions, children in contact with violent person after parents separation
  • 10. Stalking - term definition, stalker’s typical behaviour, stalking offenders, approaches to solution of stalking problem, prediction and prevention of violance, effectivity of criminal law restrictions
  • 11. Animal torture – is animal torture indication of violant criminality?
  • 12. Prediction and prevention of goal-directed violance – approach to intentional attack on specific target, escalation, de-escalation, importance of stabilizers
Literature
  • • Heider, David : Emo, generace smutných teenagerů. Psychologie Dnes, Praha, Portál, 2008/7-8, s. 40-43
  • • Hubálek, Slavomil : Co jsou zač čeští „ochránci národa a rasy“? Psychologie Dnes, Praha, Portál, 2009/6, s. 36-37
  • Kohler, D. – Kursawe, J.: Amoklaufe an Schulen. Kriminalistik, 2003, č. 10, s 591-597
  • • Forenzní psychologie. Edited by Ludmila Čírtková. Plzeň : Aleš Čeněk, 2004. 431 s. ISBN 80-86473-86-4.
  • • Pemberton, A.: Opakovaná viktimizace : železné zákony v praxi. Zpravodaj Bílého kruhu bezpečí, 2003, č. 4, s. 3-6
  • Pemberton, A.: Opakovaná viktimizace : železné zákony v praxi. Zpravodaj Bílého kruhu bezpečí, 2003, č. 4, s. 3-6
  • • Kajanová, Alena – Jersáková, Klára : Graffiti : co vede ruku sprejerů ? Psychologie Dnes, Praha, Portál, 2009/2, s. 34-37
  • Smolík, Josef – Vaďura, Vladimír : Šílení střelci ve školách. Psychologie Dnes, Praha, Portál, 2009/4, s. 46-48
  • ČÍRTKOVÁ, Ludmila. Moderní psychologie pro právníky : [domácí násilí, stalking, predikce násilí]. Vyd. 1. Praha: Grada, 2008, 150 s. ISBN 9788024722078. URL info
  • ČÍRTKOVÁ, Ludmila. Forenzní psychologie. Plzeň: Aleš Čeněk, 2004, 431 s. ISBN 8086473864. URL info
  • SPURNÝ, Joža. Psychologie násilí :o psychologické podstatě násilí, jeho projevech a způsobech psychologické obrany proti němu. 1. vyd. Praha: Eurounion, 1996, 134 s. ISBN 80-85858-30-4. info
Teaching methods
Teaching methods: verbal monologic method (lecture, explanation), verbal dialogic method (dialogue, discussion), ïllustratively demonstrative method (static projection)
Assessment methods
Assessment methods: This course is completed with written test which results from study materials, lectures and semminars. Lecture/seminar (1/1) Seminar- presentation of case studies. Condition of compliting: written test, presentation of own case study.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught each semester.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Spring 2014, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016.
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