Overview

Key Content may include:

• The nature and functions of the police and policing
• Theoretical lenses to explore policing@ the view from sociology and political science
• Historical developments of modern policing in England and Wales
• Police Occupational Subcultures
• Police Governance and Accountability
• Covert and Undercover Policing
• Commodification of Policing
• Transnational and Cross-Border Policing
• Police discrimination: race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality
• Structures of surveillance: policing and the surveillance state

Assessment Strategy

-threshold -Threshold -D (40%>)BE ABLE TO: To describe the contemporary debates on policing and explain some of the main theoretical perspectives on policing and appreciate the significance of this to the processes of criminal justice -good -Good -B (60%>)BE ABLE TO:Examine and evaluate theoretical, conceptual and methodological issues, examine contemporary policing with relation to ‘race,’ gender, crime and law; read and evaluate a range of appropriate literature and material, and incorporate personal insights and observations. -excellent -Excellent -A (70%>)BE ABLE TO:Critically analyze key theoretical and conceptual issues, and make connections between criminology and other disciplines, for e.g. history and law to the study of policing and society, as well as present material in a way that serves to support the arguments being advanced and to bring different/original modes of thought to this module.