Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Justice Studies
Learning Methods
Online
Module Offerings
6103PSDL-JAN-MTP
6103PSDL-SEP-MTP
Aims
1. The module aims to develop student understanding by looking at issues that are current and relevant in policing today. It will specifically cover public order and protest, human trafficking and intelligence and security.
2. Students will be provided with an opportunity to consider the nature of the issues, policing challenges and responses, together with the latest research and policy implications. The issues will also be considered from social and political perspectives.
3. The module will be underpinned by relevant theoretical perspectives, policy developments and cutting edge empirical research providing students with the opportunity for discussion that is intellectually stimulating and at the forefront of policing scholarship and practice.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Critically evaluate contemporary issues in policing that are the subject of study.
2.
Explain the emerging contemporary policing challenges and evaluate responses.
3.
Compare and contrast these with wider contextual, political, social and theoretical factors relevant to the issues.
4.
Synthesise your knowledge of contemporary policing issues to construct an argument; integrating new knowledge in order to write a well-argued paper on the threats and challenges posed by contemporary policing issues.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:Human Trafficking - this module will provide a critical understanding of the issues encompassing human trafficking, which includes a comprehension of the definition and the elements that constitute human trafficking, an examination of the phenomenon of human trafficking setting it into a modern context and outlining the problems and the differing types of trafficking.
Public Order and Protest - An examination of the concept of public order, the sociological and psychological theories that seek to explain the causes and dynamics of disorder, the legal issues surrounding public order and the contemporary public order policing challenges.
Intelligence and Surveillance – The student will be introduced to a number of diverse structures and models relating to western intelligence services and how that information is assessed, graded, processed and ultimately used in respect of state security and law enforcement. A core theme will be the on-going debate between legislative frameworks, individual human rights and the ever-increasing demand for state security.
Module Overview:
This module aims to develop your understanding by looking at issues that are current and relevant in policing today. It will specifically cover public order and protest, human trafficking and intelligence, and security. You will be provided with an opportunity to consider the nature of policing challenges and responses together with the latest research and policy implications.
This module aims to develop your understanding by looking at issues that are current and relevant in policing today. It will specifically cover public order and protest, human trafficking and intelligence, and security. You will be provided with an opportunity to consider the nature of policing challenges and responses together with the latest research and policy implications.
Additional Information:This module aims to address subjects that are current. As a result, while the module aims remain constant the subject matter may vary.
While L6 studies are not a part of study for the Certificate in Knowledge of Policing the module addresses elements of the National Occupational Standards CD5/ CI 101/ CB1/ CJ201/ CJ101/ GC10/ CD1/ BE2/ CK1 and CK2.
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