Course Catalogue

Justice Studies

To familiarise the student with the complex nature of vulnerability, whilst providing an understanding of how situational and environmental factors, combined with personal vulnerabilities may result in a person becoming a victim and or perpetrator. Exploring how the effective use of training, knowledge and skills, can assist in supporting those who are vulnerable and why it is necessary to use a safeguarding approach to those who are vulnerable. DAs will investigate the need for first responders to identify their own vulnerabilities when dealing with sensitive or violent incidents. Identifying the effects of stress and so understand how to develop personal resilience and coping strategies. The value and efficacy of professional help in various circumstances will also be assessed.

Outline Syllabus:
Valuing difference and inclusion. The importance of Identifying and dealing with vulnerability and risk. Public Protection. Safeguarding. Policing Communities. Community engagement and problem solving.

Module Overview:
This module will familiarise you with the complex nature of vulnerability whilst providing an understanding of how situational and environmental factors, combined with personal vulnerabilities, may result in a person becoming a victim and or perpetrator. You will explore how the effective use of training, knowledge and skills can assist in supporting those who are vulnerable and why it is necessary to use a safeguarding approach to those who are vulnerable. Also, you will investigate the need for first responders to identify their own vulnerabilities when dealing with sensitive or violent incidents.

Additional Information:
Lectures and other activities will provide DAs with information, which they will then be able to apply practically, within the tasks and experiences incorporated into the workshops. Discussions and activities such as recognising the complex nature of vulnerability. DAs will also be identifying the effects of stress and developing personal coping strategies.

All assessed components on this module must be successfully passed for credit to be released. 

This module covers the following Knowledge, Skills and Behaviours:

Knowledge:

• The ethics and values of professional policing, including: duty of care, service delivery, employment practice, efficiency, effectiveness and value for money, Code of Ethics, professional standards, and equality, diversity and human rights
• Key cross-cutting and inter-dependent areas of policing, including: roles and responsibilities, criminal justice, counter terrorism, vulnerability (including public protection and mental health) and risk.
• Social behaviour and society, including their origins, development, organisation, networks and institutions and how this relates to policing across diverse and increasingly complex communities.
• Risk manage health and safety for self and for others.
• Social behaviour and society, including their origins, development, organisation, networks and institutions and how this relates to policing across diverse and increasingly complex communities. 
• The causes, mitigations and prevention of crime and how this knowledge and understanding can influence and be applied to accountable decision making in all operational policing environments. 
• In depth knowledge, understanding and expertise relevant to organisational/local needs, including the following operational contexts: response, community, intelligence, investigation and roads/transport. 

Skills: 

• Apply Authorised Professional Practice and any local policy applicable to the operational context.
• Provide leadership to protect the public, and empathetic and appropriate support to victims, witnesses and vulnerable people. 
• Assess risk and threats across increasingly complex policing contexts, to take decisions and evaluate initiatives and their outcomes, including the impact of differing actions and methods, in accordance with the policing national decision making model and evidence based principles. Take account of the best available evidence from a wide array of sources, including research & analysis, when making decisions. Apply justified discretion when appropriate and it is in the public interest to do so.
• Use police legal powers to deal with suspects, victims and witnesses across various challenging situations, conducting all actions in a balanced, proportionate and justifiable manner. 
• Plan, apply and evaluate different policing approaches alongside partner organisations or as part of a multi-disciplinary team to address identified, often complex, issues, concerns and situations to reduce and prevent crime in communities. Provide supportive leadership to community groups, making informed decisions that encourage the delivery of localised strategies.

Behaviours:

• Taking accountability: Being accountable and taking ownership for own role and responsibilities, whilst being effective and willing to take appropriate, justifiable risks.
• Emotionally astute: Understand and effectively manage own emotions in stressful situations, understanding motivations and underlying reasons for own behaviour and that of others, including colleagues. Value diversity and difference in approaches to work, thinking and background, and treat people with sensitivity, compassion and warmth.
• Curious and Innovative: Have an inquisitive and outward-looking nature, searching for new information to understand alternative sources of best practice and implement creative working methods. Committed to reflecting on how own role is undertaken, learning from success and mistakes, to continuously review and adapt approach.
• Collaborative: Work effectively with colleagues and external partners, sharing skills, knowledge and insights as appropriate to lead to the best possible results.