Programme

JULY 5 | Educational Centers and Prisons

9:00-9:30. Introduction to the course. Filipe Santos, Susana Costa and Rafaela Granja

09:30-11:00. Session 1. Juvenile delinquency and the (non) responses of the juvenile justice system. Vera Duarte

This session has as main objective to discuss the expressions of juvenile delinquency - legal, statistical and media - from the (non) answers of prevention and intervention of the juvenile justice system.

11:00-11:15. Coffee break

11:15-12:45. Session 2. Criminal Rationalities. Rafaela Granja.

This session aims to explore the trends, rationalities, governmentalities and policies that currently characterise and shape the current landscape of prison systems. In particular, we will discuss socioeconomic changes, metamorphoses at the level of governmentality strategies and organisational changes in the current criminal contexts.

14:30-16:00. Activity 1. Visit to the Coimbra Prison. (Dependent on authorization of the Directorate General for Reinsertion and Prison Services)

16:15 - 17:45. Session 3. Prison - The miraculous ingenuity? Paula Sobral

This session will briefly discuss the configurations of citizenship and the legal position of the prisoner in the context of the so-called Prison Treatment and in the enforcment of the purposes of the sentence. Some paradoxes, practical difficulties of access to Law and Citizenship in the context of the execution of the custodial sentence will also be critically discussed, thus demonstrating the existence of practical (security) rationalities conflicting with legal rationales and narratives.

18:00. Exhibition. Radical Exclusions. A female prison world. Guided Tour. Claudia Cristina Carvalho

2 Floor Hall, CES | Alta

JULY 6 | Forensic genetics and criminal investigation

9:30-11:00. Session 4. Visibilities and invisibilities at the crime scene and its impact on the construction of criminal narratives. Susana Costa

This session intends to address the (in)visibility of the criminal investigation, made known at the crime scene by the Criminal Police agencies and how they allow the construction of evidence in a court of first instance and, again, how these same (in)visibilities can be recovered by appeal of the judicial sentence.

11:00-11:15. Coffee break.

11:15-12:45. Session 5. DNA functions in criminal investigation. Filipe Santos

From five criminal cases, this session will focus on the perspectives of criminal investigators in order to understand and characterise how DNA technologies can be understood in terms of the meanings attributed to their uses and products, whether finalised or expected.

14:30-16:00. Session 6. Transnational crime fighting. Filipe Santos

This session will highlight the trajectory and implementation of the Prüm Treaty which has implemented the automated exchange of genetic profiles between the Member States of the European Union with a view to promoting cooperation in the fight against organised crime, terrorism and illegal immigration. In particular, some data will be presented to reflect on the criminological, legal and ethical challenges of transnational sharing of DNA profiles.

16:00-16:30. Coffee break

16.30 -18.00 Activity 2. Workshop - Construction of criminal narratives. Susana Costa

Based on the police reports and photographic reports prepared by the police at the crime scene, this session objective is that students, organised in groups, construct a narrative about the case and how it unfolded. At the end, the steps given in the case and the narrative(s) made along the chain of custody of the evidence will be presented in summary form.

20:00: Course dinner (optional)

JULY 7 | Prisons and Citizenship Settings

09:00-10:30. Session 7. Prison experiences of men and women inmates. Rafaela Granja.

In this session we analyse how the experiences of imprisonment are shaped by gender and what their social, relational and economic implications are. The discussion will focus on how male and female inmates creatively negotiate a space through which they attempt to maintain some of the social roles they held in the pre-sentence period and to circumvent the limitations imposed by imprisonment.

10: 30-11: 00. Coffee break

11: 00-12: 30. Session 8. Prison, penitentiary treatment and social reintegration. Sílvia Gomes.

In this session we intend to discuss the perceptions and experiences of inmates over and in prison and how this interferes in their social reinsertion. In particular, it will address, on the one hand, how the mechanisms of social control and penitentiary treatment are experienced and perceived by the "clients" of the prison system, and, on the other hand, the impact they consider it has in their life experiences and future criminal experiences during post-confinement, configuring their notions of justice, law and citizenship.

14:30-16:00. Activity 3. mock Trial. Susana Costa, Filipe Santos

In the development of the mock trial, students will have the opportunity to explore contents covered in the previous days in a practical context, from the approach to the crime scene, to the uses of forensic genetics, and to criminal measures. From a fictitious case, the students will have access to information pertinent to the role they play during the trial (witness, defendant, judge, lawyer, etc.). After the presentation of all the evidence and its discussion, a decision of conviction or acquittal shall be determined collectively.

16:00-16:30. Coffee break.

16:30-18:00. Activity 4. Broad debate on citizenship configurations and social control mechanisms. Moderators: Rafaela Granja, Sílvia Gomes and Claudia Cristina Carvalho.

This final session, which aims to involve all participants, will discuss how the various social control mechanisms discussed throughout the course pose various challenges to citizenship configurations. The selective practices of justice systems and the (re)production of new and old forms of discrimination and stigmatization will be the structuring themes of this session.

6:00 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. Course closure and participant feedback.