General information

Course type AMUPIE
Module title Sexual offenders (in prison) – therapy and correction
Language english
Module lecturer dr Magdalena Sadowska
Lecturer's email wojewoda@amu.edu.pl
Lecturer position
Faculty Faculty of Educational Studies
Semester 2023/2024 (winter)
Duration 30
ECTS 3
USOS code 11-ST-11-a

Timetable

Time: every tuesday from October 3 to November 21, from 9.30 to 12.45.

Place: room 49, building AB, Szamarzewskiego 89. 

If the student will not be able to register for classes in USOS system (during the registration time in October) due to the limit of available places, please inform the teacher via e-mail: m.sadowska@amu.edu.pl

Module aim (aims)

Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)

Not required.

Syllabus

Week 1:           Sexual disorders - concept, diagnostic criteria, division.

Week 2:           Perpetrators of multiple rape - psychological characteristics.

Week 3:           Incest - psychological characteristics.

Week 4:           Pedophilia - psychological characteristics.

Week 5:           Psychological models and mechanisms of formation of sexual disorders.

Week 6:           Models used to diagnosis of sexual disorders.

Week 7:           Legal response to a sexual offense in Poland.

Week 8:           Legal response to a sexual offense in selected European countries.

Week 9:           Victims - effects of sexual offenses.

Week 10:         Therapy of sex offenders during incarceration.

Week 11:         Penitentiary work with sexual offenders during imprisonment.

Week 12:          Social and institutional support for sex offenders after serving a prison sentence. Social security.

Week 13:          Psychological and correctional practice with perpetrators of sexual offenses in selected European countries.

Week 14:          Case studies.

Week 15:          Summary and end of class.

Reading list