Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Justice Studies
Learning Methods
Lecture
Online
Tutorial
Workshop
Module Offerings
6107CRIM-JAN-MTP
Aims
1. To critically consider 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 critically examine the policing of a range of marginalized, minority and dissenting/dissident populations.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Critically assess the origins of police and consider the development, expansion and transformation of policing.
2.
Critically evaluate processes that legitimise and de-legitimise police and policing
3.
Critically explore the challenges and controversies surrounding policing in the 21st century.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:Topics included in this module include, but are not limited to:
• Theorizing Police Power: the state, law and order
• The Origins of Police
• Policing Empire
• Policing and Urban Order
• Policing Immigration
• ‘Race’ and Policing
• Gender and Policing
• Policing Dissent
• Commodification and export of policing
• Policing and democracy
Module Overview:
In this module you will critically consider police power and its relationship to ideas of social and political order and disorder. You will explore the origins of police, considering the development of the police project in both domestic, colonial and international settings and in doing so critically examine 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.
In this module you will critically consider police power and its relationship to ideas of social and political order and disorder. You will explore the origins of police, considering the development of the police project in both domestic, colonial and international settings and in doing so critically examine 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.
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, colonial 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.