3 ECTS credits
90 h study time
Offer 2 with catalog number 1007246BNR for all students in the 1st semester
at
a (B) Bachelor - advanced level.
- Semester
- 1st semester
- Enrollment based on exam contract
- Impossible
- Grading method
- Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
- Can retake in second session
- Yes
- Enrollment Requirements
- Volgtijdelijkheid: De student is ingeschreven in de Bachelor Criminologische Wetenschappen en heeft reeds 20 studiepunten verworven binnen de Bachelor Criminologische Wetenschappen en een credit voor het studiedeel “Psychologie”. Hiernaast is de student ingeschreven op het studiedeel “Criminologische psychologie”. Of de student is ingeschreven in het voorbereidingsprogramma Criminologische Wetenschappen. Of de student is ingeschreven in de bachelor criminologische wetenschappen met studieduurverkorting. Of de student is ingeschreven in het schakelprogramma Criminologische Wetenschappen. Of de student is ingeschreven in de Master in de Rechten en heeft reeds 20 studiepunten van de opleiding Master in de Rechten verworven. Of de student is ingeschreven in de Bachelor Politieke Wetenschappen en heeft in deze opleiding reeds 30 studiepunten verworven alsook een credit voor “Algemene psychologie”. Of de student is ingeschreven in de Bachelor Sociologie en heeft in deze opleiding reeds 30 studiepunten verworven alsook een credit voor “Algemene psychologie”.Of de student is ingeschreven in de Bachelor Psychologie en heeft reeds 20 studiepunten verworven binnen de Bachelor Psychologie en een credit voor het studiedeel "Psychologie". Hiernaast is de student ingeschreven op het studiedeel " Sociale Psychologie".
- Taught in
- Dutch
- Faculty
- Faculty of Law and Criminology
- Department
- Criminology
- Educational team
- Chris Dillen
(course titular)
- Activities and contact hours
- 26 contact hours Lecture
60 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
- Course Content
The course sets out to situate the role of the psychiatrist as part of the legal system by way of a series of practical examples (psychiatry reports for the benefit of penal courts, insanity and competency to stand trial and treatment in forensic context, medicolegal evaluations of liability, workers compensations, …). General forensic psychiatric concepts on aggression, sexuality and related pathology, the role played by sexual pathology in various criminal offences, will be discussed.
All this is based on the VUB course Forensic Psychiatry and pre-recorded lectures.
Three contact moments of 3 hours each with the students are provided:
- A first contact moment at the start of the semester outlines de working principles en outset of the course, as well as an introduction in forensic psychiatry in general.
- A second contact moment will take place in the middle of the semester after individual study of the course and videos. Questions can be introduced via ‘discussions’ in Canvas. During this contact moment these questions will be answered and more in depth discussion in an interactive way can take place. Also will video’s be shown that can’t be presented on Canvas because of copyright issues.
- A third contact moment will be at the end of the semester, where the second half of the course and video’s will be discussed after introducing questions via ‘discussions’, and more information on the exam will be communicated.
- Course material
- Practical course material (Recommended) : Forensische psychiatrie, Boeken over algemene of meer specifieke themata en richtinggevende artikels, nota's kritische bespreking hieromtrent
Practical course material (Recommended) : Forensische psychiatrie, Enkele standaardwerken worden aanbevolen.
Course text (Required) : Forensische psychiatrie, Dillen, VUB, 2220170006703, 2019
- Additional info
Video recordings of lectures from a previous academic year are available via Canvas. They must be seen as one with the course by the VUB Cursusdienst.
Books on general or more specific topics and guiding articles, notes of the critical review of such books and articles will be presented.
Digital lectures will be available for working students. More information will be communicated via the course unit platform in Canvas.
- Learning Outcomes
-
General competencies
Students acquire theoretical and practical insights into the relationship between law/psychiatry, exploring biopsychological influences, criminal behaviour.
Graduates have an interested, independent, and curious attitude towards gaining and building knowledge in the forensic domain.
- Grading
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The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Written Exam determines 100% of the final mark.
Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- Exam Multiple Choice
with a relative weight of 1
which comprises 100% of the final mark.
- Additional info regarding evaluation
Multiple choice exam with correction for guessing (standard setting).
Students will have a max. of 2 hours to take the exam.
Exam questions:
1. What is a criminogenese?
- The story of how the accused committed the crime
- The criminal life history of the accused
- The explanation of how the accused with his/her personality and psychopathology committed the crime on that specific moment in time
- The study of the objects found on the crime scene
2. Mullen and Pathé distinguish different types of stalkers. Give the different types presented by these autors:
- Rejected, resentful, domestic, non-domestic, erotomanic
- Love obsessional, simple obsessed, erotomanic
- Rejected, intimacy searching, erotomanic, resentful, incompetent seducer
- Resentful, rejected, intimacy searching, love obsessional, obsessed love group
- Allowed unsatisfactory mark
- The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.
Academic context
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Psychology: Profile Profile Work and Organisational Psychology (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Psychology: Profile Profile Clinical psychology (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Criminology: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Criminology: Verkort traject (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Psychology: Afstudeerrichting arbeids- en organisatiepsychologie (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Laws: Dual Master in Comparative Corporate and Financial Law (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Laws: Civil and Procedural Law (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Laws: Criminology (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Laws: Economic Law (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Laws: Tax Law (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Laws: International and European Law (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Laws: Public Law (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Laws: Social Law (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Laws: Criminal Law (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Laws: Law and Technology (only offered in Dutch)