XP2005  IDENTIFYING AND WORKING WITH PERPETRATORS (A.Y. 2024/2025)

• Accademic Unit

  Institute of Anthropology

• Course

  Licentiate in Safeguarding

Objectives: The course will serve as an introduction to the types of perpetrators and their strategies, deepening students’ understanding of the forms of assistance and the way they can implement assistance in their own contexts. It will also help students to reflect on the most recent versions of the Canon Law instructions in the field and the impact on their own contexts.

Learning Outcomes: At the end of the course, students will be able to recognize the dynamics of abuse. Students will identify the causes of abuse with regard to individual, cultural, and social aspects. Students will be able to assess the measures of assistance for the perpetrators in their countries, taking into consideration legal and canonical implications. They will become aware of how knowing about clerical sexual abusers may affect them personally.

Content: Different types of perpetrators; signs and indicators of potential offenders; internal and external processes that enable abuse such as cognitive distortions; grooming techniques; overcoming hurdles and inhibitors; dynamics of online offenders; feelings and attitudes with regard to clerical offenders; challenges posed by talking to perpetrators; therapy and care for offenders with regard to proper accompaniment of alleged offenders; types of therapy; pastoral care; legal and canonical implications; laws in the different countries; theological implications; confession; restorative justice; forgiveness.

Methodology: The course will combine lectures, readings, and seminar discussion.

Means of evaluation: Evaluation will be based on class participation and written papers.

• Information
• Teachers
• Lesson schedule/Room
• Bibliography

Information

• Semestre: 1° Semestre
• ECTS: 4

Teachers

Romuald UZABUMWANA

Lesson schedule/Room

Lessons schedule not available

Bibliography

• It will be indicated at the beginning of the course.