Psicologia das motivações ajurídicas do sentenciar : a emergência do saber em detrimento do poder

RESUMO:A pretensão deste trabalho reside na indagação sobre a eventual existência de um acervo de motivações ajurídicas que fundamentem as decisões judicias, erigindo como actor principal o Aplicador da Lei. Para tanto – recorreu-se à utilização de um instrumento construído pela autora, em 2005 – a Grelha de Observação das Motivações Ajurídicas do Sentenciar – destinado a captar aspectos considerados principais na comunicação dos protagonistas do processo de criminalização secundária, quer ao nível da comunicação verbal (C.V.) quer no concerne à comunicação não verbal (C.N.V.), verificando, depois, em presença das decisões, as razões justificativas evidenciadas. E que constituíram o suporte ajurídico de cada sentença. Assim, realizou-se um trabalho de observação, tendo a Grelha de Observação sido aplicada por licenciados em Psicologia, estudantes do 2º ciclo de Psicologia Forense e da Exclusão Social (Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias), e alunos da Faculdade de Direito (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), que operaram em três tribunais criminais de Lisboa A amostra é constituída por 25 julgamentos, com um total de 64 personagens judiciais. Os resultados, ainda que meramente indicativos, demonstram uma tendência para a validade e consistência interna da grelha, indiciando também a verificação de motivações ajurídicas nas decisões judiciais. ABSTRACT: The intention of this work resides in the investigation of the eventual existence of an amount of non judicial motivations which support judicial decisions, where the law applicator arises as the main actor. For such - the use of an instrument built by the author in 2005 was resorted to - the Observation grid of the non judicial motivations of the sentencing - destined to capture aspects considered primary in the communication of the key players of the secondary criminalization process, in both the verbal communication level and in what concerns non verbal communication, later verifying, in the presence of the decisions, the evidenced justifiable reasons, which established the non judicial support of each sentence. Thus, an observational work was performed, having been applied the observation grid by Psychology graduates, students of the masters in Forensic Psychology and of Social Exclusion (Lusófona University of Humanities and Technology), as well as students of the Faculty of Law (New University of Lisbon), which operated in three criminal courts in Lisbon. The sample consists of 25 trials, with a total of 64 judicial characters. The results, even if only indicative, show a trend towards internal consistency and validity of the grid, also indicating the verification of non judicial motivations in judicial decisions.

Drivers and barriers to digital television adoption in Portugal: the perspectives of the TV viewers and other main stakeholders

To understand what are the most significant factors for digital TV adoption by the Portuguese population in the switchover context is the main goal of the research project here presented. In April 26, 2012, the analogue terrestrial television switchoff is planned to occur in Portugal, according to the schedule published by the national telecommunication regulator Anacom. Digital terrestrial TV was launched in the country in April 2009, making Portugal one of the countries with a more ambitious schedule – or risky, depending on the perspective - for the full transition from analogue to digital terrestrial television. In this paper we will start by presenting the research project’s objectives, theoretical framework and research design. Next, we will present first results of the project focused on the barriers and drivers to digital TV adoption from two of the empirical studies which integrate it, namely, the quantitative inquiry administered to a representative sample of the Portuguese population and interviews with main stakeholders in the area of digital TV in Portugal. The perspectives of the television viewers are compared with other main stakeholders in this process. The paper will be concluded with a brief discussion of these results and a brief enumeration of next steps for the project.

Museologial action's main fields

Museology has emerged and has been organised as a field of knowledge, precisely to frame the technical, theoretical and methodological aspects, regarding the constitution, implementation and evaluation of the processes that societies establish for the selection, treatment and extroversion of the memory indicators, transforming them into patrimonial references and projecting them into the constitutive fields of cultural heritage. It is therefore, one of the areas of knowledge that deals with the framing of heritage and their professionals are agents of memory education. The constitution of the parameters that define and delimit the museological action field has been outlined in the course of the centuries, if we consider the technical efforts related to the identification and organisation of collections, in addition to the curatorial treatment of specimens from nature, of objects, of the intangible heritage registers. The same length of elaboration is true if we evaluate the communication initiatives and of education of the senses.