Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
LJMU Partner Taught
Learning Methods
Lecture
Module Offerings
6502PNDHEP-APR_NS-PAR
6502PNDHEP-JAN-PAR
6502PNDHEP-JAN_NS-PAR
6502PNDHEP-SEP-PAR
Aims
To enable students to examine their communities in greater detail and identify appropriate interventions to help safeguard and involve citizens. The module will examine vulnerability and risk in detail and encourage students to identify how vulnerability impacts on the community, identifying appropriate strategies to reduce harm. The module examines the approaches and theories behind why some communities are more vulnerable than others and explore how those theories can support interventions. The module supports students to develop actions and engagement techniques that support good trust and communication and encourages students to design a process that builds collaboration in problem solving.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Differentiate the factors and conditions that contribute to risk and vulnerability in individuals, groups and communities.
2.
Critically examine gender-based violence and appraise the police and criminal justice strategies designed to reduce harm and repetition.
3.
Compare methods of community engagement and communication and design a strategy to meet the needs of the community.
4.
Examine theories of social capital and collective efficacy and how they contribute to the health of a community.
5.
Apply knowledge of both Evidence Based Policing and collective efficacy to formulate a plan to reduce crime or ASB and promote community cohesion in a community utilising problem solving and capacity building approaches.
6.
Create clear communication and accessibility between policing and the community utilising shared understanding and commitment.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:
Assessing the existence of vulnerable communities and how policing tactics affect that vulnerability
Critically review the range of factors that can contribute to vulnerability
Understand coercion, control and risk to the most vulnerable
Tackling violence against women and girls
Strategies for managing risk to victims and others
Home Office definition of domestic abuse, initial assessments and actions
Powers to safeguard potential victims and move them to a place of safety
Options available for helping victims of domestic abuse
Stalking – identification of risk and threat
Use of protective orders
Understanding how drugs, organised crime, gangs and violence can become endemic in communities
Ensuring victims and witnesses are dealt with fairly, with respect and in an ethical and non-biased manner
Enabling a victim or witness to give their best evidence
Legitimising policing though clear communication with victims and witnesses
Impact of community engagement on police legitimacy
Impact of engagement on community confidence
Developing an understanding of theories of social capital and collective efficacy and how they should be utilised to developed collaborative approaches to problem solving
Developing the skills required to engage with and work collaboratively with communities and community-based organisations to maximise safety
Undertake an asset map of community based organisations in a community and recognise the opportunities for collaborative preventative problem solving
Building rapport, empathy and understanding to maximise trust and confidence
Developing effective communication strategies within your community
Formulate a range of problem-solving approaches that can be applied to reduce crime, community tension or promote community cohesion
Develop a local community strategy to reduce crime and ASB and build community capacity and resilience through strength-based practices
Assessing the existence of vulnerable communities and how policing tactics affect that vulnerability
Critically review the range of factors that can contribute to vulnerability
Understand coercion, control and risk to the most vulnerable
Tackling violence against women and girls
Strategies for managing risk to victims and others
Home Office definition of domestic abuse, initial assessments and actions
Powers to safeguard potential victims and move them to a place of safety
Options available for helping victims of domestic abuse
Stalking – identification of risk and threat
Use of protective orders
Understanding how drugs, organised crime, gangs and violence can become endemic in communities
Ensuring victims and witnesses are dealt with fairly, with respect and in an ethical and non-biased manner
Enabling a victim or witness to give their best evidence
Legitimising policing though clear communication with victims and witnesses
Impact of community engagement on police legitimacy
Impact of engagement on community confidence
Developing an understanding of theories of social capital and collective efficacy and how they should be utilised to developed collaborative approaches to problem solving
Developing the skills required to engage with and work collaboratively with communities and community-based organisations to maximise safety
Undertake an asset map of community based organisations in a community and recognise the opportunities for collaborative preventative problem solving
Building rapport, empathy and understanding to maximise trust and confidence
Developing effective communication strategies within your community
Formulate a range of problem-solving approaches that can be applied to reduce crime, community tension or promote community cohesion
Develop a local community strategy to reduce crime and ASB and build community capacity and resilience through strength-based practices
Additional Information:
Lectures will provide the students with information and theories. Students will then explore the theory in more detail and context through facilitated discussion and practically apply the knowledge in their community-based work and practical scenarios. Students will examine vulnerability and risk, including a focus upon gender violence and will develop their understanding of strategies to reduce harm for different communities. Students will explore the role of other groups and communities in preventing crime. Students will develop this understanding through the design of an engagement event to hear community voices and then they will identify how effective problem solving can utilise community assets through the development of an asset map in their community.
This module outline must be read in conjunction with the module appendix and mapping spreadsheet, which details the National Policing Curriculum (NPC) content areas, learning outcomes and minimum content relating to each of the module learning outcomes, which can be found on the Module Key Information tab on Canvas.
Lectures will provide the students with information and theories. Students will then explore the theory in more detail and context through facilitated discussion and practically apply the knowledge in their community-based work and practical scenarios. Students will examine vulnerability and risk, including a focus upon gender violence and will develop their understanding of strategies to reduce harm for different communities. Students will explore the role of other groups and communities in preventing crime. Students will develop this understanding through the design of an engagement event to hear community voices and then they will identify how effective problem solving can utilise community assets through the development of an asset map in their community.
This module outline must be read in conjunction with the module appendix and mapping spreadsheet, which details the National Policing Curriculum (NPC) content areas, learning outcomes and minimum content relating to each of the module learning outcomes, which can be found on the Module Key Information tab on Canvas.