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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Training benefits

Registration opens on September 1 

► Administrative registration :
> Initial training : dsp-inscriptions-licences @ umontpellier.fr
> Continuing education : elyse.siong @ umontpellier.fr  - Tel: 04 34 43 25 93

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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: 130h

MODULE 1: IDENTIFICATION AND DEFINITION OF VIF
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 VIF INVESTIGATION
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
The concept of "hold", profiles of victims and perpetrators, addictions and domestic violence, recognition of physical, sexual, psychological and economic violence
, the impact of domestic violence on children...

MODULE 4: CARE FOR THE VICTIMS AND AUTHORS OF VIF
Study and presentation of the procedures for judging the perpetrators of VIF, the mechanisms for protecting the victims
of VIF, supporting the perpetrators and victims, and compensating the victims of VIF.

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Admission

Admission requirements

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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