Course Catalogue

Justice Studies

Breakdown of delivery hours per week. There will be 33 hours of total delivery for this Module. This will include 3 hours online presentations per week for each of the 11 topics. Additional direct contact is made as and when required between the Student and Module and / or Programme lead. This module integrates with both Operational Ethics and Intelligence Analysis to ensure the course affords students a holistic and contextual view of intelligence use in national, international and regional settings. It aims to enhance student’s awareness of the breadth and scope of intelligence use by introducing key cases studies detailing both intelligence failure and success. It encourages and enhances the student’s critical thinking regarding the collection, evaluation, analysis and use of intelligence in law enforcement, military and national security settings. The module gives a historical and contemporary overview of the development of intelligence, reinforcing understanding through the exploration of specific case studies. The learning drawn from these case studies are vital to understanding modern intelligence concepts and practice and Government response to intelligence. The programme will also explore the use of Intelligence by law enforcement, partner agencies, military and intelligence agencies, sometimes in isolation and sometimes as part of a multi-agency approach to an identified threat. The programme will examine the development of intelligence from a historical perspective, highlighting the key milestones in its journey from an ad hoc element of Government to one that is now fully embedded in State craft, the military and/or criminal justice agencies. The programme will examine when and how Intelligence has been used to address current or emerging threat to public safety or against specific individual. It will investigate and critically analyse the contribution intelligence makes to community safety. The module will enable students to develop an advanced and critical knowledge of key methodological issues. Students will critically assess these provisions in the context of debate around intelligence use in both a private and public context, formal and informal intelligence use, and the use of intelligence in Crime, Military and Terrorism contexts. The programme will explore the judicial and organisational review associated with intelligence failure, critically appraising the evidence and exploring the review’s recommendations in contemporary in real world settings. It will highlight the role of strategic warnings and signals and the impact of failing to recognise and response to these. It will identify policy and practices that are utilised to support intelligence collection and management and discuss the evidence based for each to determine ‘what works’ and ‘what does not’ in terms of avoiding future intelligence failure. The curriculum will allow students to generate a critical appreciation of the diverse range of uses of intelligence including Prison intelligence, Humanitarian intelligence, Financial Intelligence and Open Source Intelligence. It will examine the use of intelligence in different contexts, giving the students opportunities to study how and why intelligence can fail, often with catastrophic results to communities and Governments.

Outline Syllabus:Historical and theoretical perspectives of Intelligence Policy formation in Government and Policing in relation to intelligence. Case studies in Intelligence failure Case Studies in Intelligence Success Specialist Intelligence collection disciplines Public Inquiry and Intelligence failure The principles of Intelligence-led policing in both private and public arenas.

Additional Information:Core Topics: Key milestones in the development of intelligence LEARNING OUTCOME: 1,2,3,4,5 Development of partner Intelligence – Prison Intelligence LEARNING OUTCOME: 1,2,3,4,5 Emergence of private sector Intelligence capabilities LEARNING OUTCOME: 1,2,3,4,5 The Northern Ireland Troubles and the use of intelligence LEARNING OUTCOME: 1,2,3,4,5 Financial Intelligence and terrorism LEARNING OUTCOME: 1,2,3,4,5 Open Source Intelligence LEARNING OUTCOME: 1,2,3,4,5 Intelligence failure: Case Study 1 - Military LEARNING OUTCOME: 1,2,3,4,5 Intelligence failure: Case Study 2 – National Security LEARNING OUTCOME: 1,2,3,4,5 Intelligence failure: Case Study 3 – Law Enforcement LEARNING OUTCOME: 1,2,3,4,5 Intelligence success: Case Study - Multi Agency LEARNING OUTCOME: 1,2,3,4,5 Humanitarian and UN Peacekeeper Intelligence LEARNING OUTCOME: 1,2,3,4,5