Law - Political science - Administration

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE - THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL APPROACHES

  • Duration

    1 year

  • Training structure

    Faculty of Law and Political Science

Presentation

Educational coordinators:
Anne PONSEILLE and Aurélie THONNAT

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Objectives

The aim of this diploma is to train future professionals and reinforce the training of professionals from different sectors working with victims and perpetrators of domestic violence, by offering cross-disciplinary, theoretical and practical courses taught by academics and professionals, in order to optimize the detection and care of victims and perpetrators, encourage reporting and, more generally, strengthen the fight against this type of offence.

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Program

The courses are taught by academics and professionals (judges, lawyers, police officers, psychologists,
psychiatrists, forensic doctors, etc.) and will enable students to acquire knowledge and
skills in the following areas:

MODULE 1: IDENTIFICATION AND DEFINITION OF VIF (15H)
Presentation of the panorama of offences falling into the category of VIF, aggravating circumstances, immunity
penal, direct and indirect victims, penal qualification by the Public Prosecutor, penal responses (alternatives to
prosecutions and penalties...)

MODULE 2: REPORTING AND INVESTIGATION OF VIF (14H)
Study of reporting procedures, professional secrecy, consequences of failure to report, risk
criminal, complaint, acts of investigation and prosecution...

MODULE 3: DETECTION AND RECOGNITION OF VIOLENCE (26H)
Notion of power, profiles of victims and perpetrators, addictions and domestic violence, recognition of violence
physical, sexual, psychological, economic, incidence of domestic violence on children...

MODULE 4: CARE FOR THE VICTIMS AND PERpetrators OF VIF (45H)
Study and presentation of the procedures for judging the perpetrators of VIF, the mechanisms for protecting victims
of VIF, support for perpetrators and victims and reparation for the victims of VIF.

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Admission

Access conditions

Students in initial training (medicine, law, psychology, etc.) and professionals in continuing education (legal professionals [lawyers], professionals in the medical-social sector [doctors, midwives, psychologists, social workers, etc.], from the
education sector [rectorat, teachers...], from the associative sector [CIDFF, CIMADE, ALMA, victim support associations, ...]), to staff from administrations (prefecture, CAF...) and local authorities (communes, département).

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