SOC5033 - Changing Perspectives in Policing

Objectives:

Assessment tasks are designed to enable students to demonstrate the Learning and Employability outcomes for the relevant level of study. Level Learning Outcomes are embedded in the assessment task(s) at that level. This enables a more integrated view of overall student performance at each level.

Content:

This module explores the links between police practice and how changes and improvements have been made to keep pace with society. There will be an exploration of how psychological knowledge is being applied to routine policing activities. Student will explore topics that include investigative interviewing, detecting deceptions, police decision making, and making use of tactics using ‘nudge psychology’ to prevent crime. Internal police cultures will be explored as well as psychological wellbeing. Utilising knowledge and intelligence mapping of criminals and their careers will be extrapolated and how they are used to combat serious and organised crime groups.

Learning and Teaching Information:

Lectures
Hours: 20
Intended Group Size: 100

Seminars/Workshops
Hours: 20
Intended Group Size: 100

Guided independent study
Hours: 260

Further details relating to assessment
Formative assessment will take place in taught sessions and Seminars through the use of summary questions to check the development of understanding as well as groups tasks and discussions using online tools and traditional methods such as flip charts. Assessments will take place through a combination of methods that will include; written assignment based on changing perspectives in policing. In addition students will be tested on their understanding of the key principles of investigative interviewing where they will take a witness statement based on a ficticious policing scenario.

Assessment:

001 Group presentation; 10 minutes; mid semester 1 25%
002 Written assignment; 2,000 words; end of semester 1 50%
003 Evidence gathering through witness statement; written statement 1,000 words; end of semester 2 25%

Fact File

Module Coordinator - Jon Hyslop
Level - 5
Credit Value - 30
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 5YL

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