Teaching Responsibility

LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:

Justice Studies

Learning Methods

Lecture

Online

Module Offerings

6207CRIM-JAN-MTP

Aims

This module aims: 1. To encourage students to critically consider the exercise of police power and its relationship to ideas of social and political order and disorder. 2. To explore the origins of police, considering the development, expansion and transformation of policing in domestic, colonial and international settings. 3. To foster a critical understanding of the policing of a range of marginalized, minority and dissenting/dissident populations.

Learning Outcomes

1.
Critically assess histories of policing and consider the development, expansion and transformation of policing.
2.
Critically reflect on the relationship between police power and order and disorder.
3.
Critically examine the policing of marginalised populations.
4.
Critically evaluate processes that legitimise and de-legitimise police and policing.

Module Content

Outline Syllabus:
An indicative range of topics studied includes: • The origins of police • Policing and democracy • Policing, the state and law & order • Social divisions and policing
Module Overview:
This module will encourage you to critically consider the exercise of police power and its relationship to ideas of social and political order and disorder. You will explore the origins of police, considering the development, expansion and transformation of policing in domestic, colonial and international settings. In doing so, you will foster a critical understanding of the policing of a range of marginalized, minority and dissenting/dissident populations.
Additional Information:
This module seeks to critically consider police power and its relationship to ideas of social and political order and disorder. It explores the origins of police, considering the development of the police project in both domestic and international settings and in doing so critically examines the relationship between police, state power and the question of order. The module considers historical and contemporary policing through a series of case study issues.

Assessments

Centralised Exam

Essay