Teaching Responsibility

LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:

Justice Studies

Learning Methods

Online

Workshop

Module Offerings

6004COMJUS-MAR_NS-MTP

6004COMJUS-SEP-MTP

6004COMJUS-SEP_NS-MTP

Aims

This module aims  to engage PQIP learners around the role and place of research within criminal justice and the impact and implications for practice.

Learning Outcomes

1.
Demonstrate integration of theoretical learning obtained through academic study with workplace learning obtained through practice.
2.
Critically appraise the application in practice of models, concepts, principles, and interventions with challenging cases.
3.
Demonstrate a critical understanding of the relationship between practice frameworks and professional judgement.

Module Content

Outline Syllabus:
Introduction to the module - Research awareness and appreciation - Reviewing the literature – Gaps and values  - Methods and methodology – credibility and challenges  -  Reflective Practice / practitionership – Reflexivity / Ethics / Values / confidentiality - Hearing the voices – Practitioners / victims / POPs / PIPs / lived experience of the criminal justice system - Implications for practice - evidence based practice and analysis.  Conclusion -  Recap and Review. 
Module Overview:
This module will look to engage with PQIP learners around the role and place of research within criminal justice and the impact and implications for practice.  

Initially developing awareness of the centrality of research in shaping and frequently (re)defining the landscape of practice within the Probation Service, and more broadly within the criminal justice system, the module will explore the evolution of this journey, up until the current day.  

Articulating the need to develop a critical awareness of existing literature in the field, the module will explore the validity and credibility of this literature as well as exploring the methodological and philosophical approaches to research more broadly. Incorporated into this module will be a focus around reflexivity, engaging with awareness of one’s own place within practice and links to research, and how ethics and values are incorporated into this, with a view to critically appraise practitionership.  

The module will consider how theory and practice interface, how research impacts on policy, what influences this process, and whose voices are most prominently heard.

The module assignment will provide opportunities for PQIP learners to consider key areas identified as requiring future research and insight. 

Assessments

Essay