Psychology of Deviant Behavior

Psicologia do Comportamento Desviante

Course code:9219302

Ana Cristina Sabino Pestana Neves

Learning outcomes of the curricular unit:

1. Recognize the ambiguity and variability of norm and deviation concepts, resulting from the multiplicity of definitions and application to various contexts.
2. Distinguish deviant behavior from related concepts.
3. Understand the transitional role or continuity potential of deviant behaviors in the development of children and adolescents.
4. Relating Psychology of Deviant Behavior with other fields that study this phenomenon, highlighting the scientific nature of Psychology.
5. Contextualize, characterize and relate the main explanations for deviant behavior, identifying advantages, limitations and applications and recognizing the importance of integrative approaches.
6. Understand the relationship between understanding and preventing deviant behavior, identifying the application contexts of the Psychology of Deviant Behavior and highlighting its multidisciplinary nature.

Syllabus:

1. DEFINITIONS AND STUDY FIELD DELIMITATION
   Norm and deviance.
   The Psychology of Deviant Behavior and other fields of Psychology.
   The Psychology of Deviant Behavior and other study fields of the deviation phenomenon.
   From marginal conducts to deviant, antisocial, delinquent and criminal conducts.
   Deviant behavior in the frame of children and adolescents development
2. THEORIES OF DEVIANT BEHAVIOUR
   Biological approaches: genetic and organic explanations.
   Sociological approaches: societies, communities and groups as units of analysis.
   Psychological and psychosocial approaches.
   Situational approaches.
   The potential of integrative approaches: Man as a Bio-psycho-social being.
3. FROM EXPLAINING TO PREVENTING
   Contexts of application

Suggested Bibliography:

• Amaro F & Costa D (Eds) (2019). Criminologia e reinserção social. Lisboa: Pactor. ISBN: 978-02-12-804417-9
• Bryant CD (2011) The Routledge Handbook of Deviant Behavior, Routledge, New York. ISBN - 978-0415482745
• Ellis L, Farrington DP & Hoskin AW (2019) Handbook of Crime Correlates. 2nd ed. London: Academic Press. ISBN: 978-989-693-080-6
• Thio AD, Taylor JD & Schwartz MD (2013) Deviant behavior. Boston: Pearson. ISBN: 978-0205205165
• Vazsonyi AT, Flann DJ & DeLisi M (2018) The Cambridge Handbook of Violent Behavior and Aggression. 2nd Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN-10: 1316632210