Modiwl SXY-3022:
Youth Crime, Vulnerability and Abuse
Ffeithiau’r Modiwl
Rhedir gan School of History, Law and Social Sciences
20.000 Credyd neu 10.000 Credyd ECTS
Semester 1
Trefnydd: Prof Martina Feilzer
Amcanion cyffredinol
This module will consolidate students’ understanding of vulnerability, risk of harm, and offending behaviour. It will review the evidence on the role of adverse childhood experiences on offending behaviour in young people and adults. It will discuss the overlap between vulnerable young people at risk of harm through grooming for sexual and criminal exploitation, gang membership, and radicalisation, and you people who offend. The module will consider young people’s experiences of care, family trauma, specific learning needs and mental health issues.
Police responsibilities of support vulnerable people through the criminal justice process and their specific needs will be highlighted. The module will also reinforce partnership working and discuss existing relationships with partner organisations, health, education, youth offending services, children’s services.
Cynnwys cwrs
Indicative content: -Vulnerability, risk, adverse childhood experiences and trauma -Partnership working – youth justice system and partnerships – Children First -Young people, trauma and offending behaviour – county lines, child sexual exploitation, radicalisation, youth gangs -Young people as ‘Troubled’ or ‘troublesome’ -Police response to vulnerability throughout the criminal justice process -Needs of vulnerable people
Meini Prawf
ardderchog
A- to A+ Assessment is based on the degree of engagement with academic literature and student's ability to summarise and critically analyse theory. For an excellent grade, there will be extensive engagement with the relevant academic literature; a sophisticated presentation of academic theory and a well developed critical analysis of theory. Students will show an excellent grasp of how theory relates to practice.
trothwy
D- to D+ Assessment is based on the degree of engagement with academic literature and student's ability to summarise and critically analyse theory. For a threshold grade, engagement with the academic literature is weak; the student's ability to summarise theory will be mainly descriptive; and there will be little critical analysis and understanding of how theory relates to policing practice.
da
C- to B+ Assessment is based on the degree of engagement with academic literature and student's ability to summarise and critically analyse theory. For a good and very good grade, there will be good engagement with the academic literature, reflected in the use of a wide range of academic sources; the discussion of the academic theory will go beyond mere description and there will be a critical analysis of theory and how it is applied to policing practice.
Canlyniad dysgu
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Critical review the link between the link between experiences of vulnerability and abuse and contact with the police as victim and/or offender
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Gain an understanding of youth justice system considerations and partnerships in Wales, including Children First, Offender Second
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Review the evidence on adverse childhood experiences and trauma and youth crime
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Examine police responsibilities when encountering those with vulnerabilities and their responses to police contact
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Review the exploitation of vulnerable people by organised crime groups or individuals
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Critically review and reflect on current police practices when dealing with vulnerability
Dulliau asesu
Strategaeth addysgu a dysgu
Oriau | ||
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Workshop | Weekly 2-hour workshops |
24 |
Lecture | 12 | |
Private study | 164 |
Sgiliau Trosglwyddadwy
- Llythrennedd - Medrusrwydd mewn darllen ac ysgrifennu drwy amrywiaeth o gyfryngau
- Rhifedd - Medrusrwydd wrth ddefnyddio rhifau ar lefelau priodol o gywirdeb
- Defnyddio cyfrifiaduron - Medrusrwydd wrth ddefnyddio ystod o feddalwedd cyfrifiadurol
- Hunanreolaeth - Gallu gweithio mewn ffordd effeithlon, prydlon a threfnus. Gallu edrych ar ganlyniadau tasgau a digwyddiadau, a barnu lefelau o ansawdd a phwysigrwydd
- Archwilio - Gallu ymchwilio ac ystyried dewisiadau eraill
- Adalw gwybodaeth - Gallu mynd at wahanol ac amrywiol ffynonellau gwybodaeth
- Sgiliau Rhyngbersonol - Gallu gofyn cwestiynau, gwrando'n astud ar atebion a'u harchwilio
- Dadansoddi Beirniadol & Datrys Problem - Gallu dadelfennu a dadansoddi problemau neu sefyllfaoedd cymhleth. Gallu canfod atebion i broblemau drwy ddadansoddiadau ac archwilio posibiliadau
- Cyflwyniad - Gallu cyflwyno gwybodaeth ac esboniadau yn glir i gynulleidfa. Trwy gyfryngau ysgrifenedig neu ar lafar yn glir a hyderus.
- Gwaith Tîm - Gallu cydweithio'n adeiladol ag eraill ar dasg gyffredin, ac/neu fod yn rhan o dîm gweithio o ddydd i ddydd
- Mentora - Gallu cefnogi, helpu, arwain, ysbrydoli ac/neu hyfforddi eraill
- Gofalu - Dangos consyrn am eraill; gofalu am blant, pobl ag anableddau ac/neu'r henoed
- Rheloaeth - Gallu defnyddio, cydlynu a rheoli adnoddau (dynol, ffisegol ac/neu ariannol)
- Dadl - Gallu cyflwyno, trafod a chyfiawnhau barn neu lwybr gweithredu, naill ai gydag unigolyn neu mewn grwˆp ehangach
- Hunanymwybyddiaeth & Ystyried - Bod yn ymwybodol o'ch cryfderau, gwendidau, nodau ac amcanion eich hun. Gallu adolygu ,cloriannu a myfyrio'n rheolaidd ar eich perfformiad eich hun ac eraill.
Sgiliau pwnc penodol
- The role of the police constable, its history, and changes over time
- The context of contemporary policing; police culture; models of policing including community policing, evidence-based policing; the extended police family
- Crime prevention measures and their effectiveness as well as human rights issues in relation to preventive and pre-emptive measures
- How crime, deviance, harm, and victimisation are socially and legally constructed; the different sources of information about crime and victimisation, how they are produced, including their location in particular legal, political, social and ideological frameworks, and how they can be interpreted
- Trends in crime and victimisation; different forms of crime and their social organisation including organized crime; e-crime, and terrorism
- Different theoretical approaches to the study, analysis and explanation of crime, deviance, victimization and policing; relationships between crime and social change and the impact of globalization
- Relationships between crime, deviance, victimisation, policing and social divisions such as age, gender, social class, and ethnicity
- Apply different policing models and communication skills as situations require
- Recognise individuals' vulnerabilities and situations of risk (to self and others)
- Appreciate the complexity and diversity of the ways in which crime is constituted, represented and dealt with; and making reasoned arguments
- Assess the merits of competing theories relevant to crime, victimisation and policing as well as other responses to crime and deviance
- Assess the merits and diversity of objectives of competing responses to crime and deviance, including the protection of human rights and its implications for policing
Cyrsiau sy’n cynnwys y modiwl hwn
Gorfodol mewn cyrsiau:
- L436: BSc Professional Policing (Pre-join) year 3 (BSC/PP)