
Module SCY-3004:
Yr Heddlu a Chymdeithas Gyfoes
Module Facts
Run by School of History, Philosophy and Social Sciences
20 Credits or 10 ECTS Credits
Semester 1
Organiser: Dr Gwenda Jones
Overall aims and purpose
Amcan pennaf y fodiwl yw ymdrin yn ddwys â pholisïau ac ymarfer gwaith cyfoes yr heddlu ynghyd â'r fframwaith statudol. Yn hyn o beth ceir trafodaeth o'r newid cymdeithasol, cyfreithiol, ac economaidd yng nghyd-destun polisi cyfiawnder troseddol a'i oblygiadau yn feirniadol i waith a rôl yr heddlu yn genedlaethol a rhyngwladol. Ystyriwn astudiaethau polisi yng nghyd-destun prosesau cymdeithasol ehangach, ynghyd â dadleuon a materion allweddol sy'n ymwneud â phlismona cyhoeddus, y defnydd o rym ac awdurdod, hawliau dynol, deddfwriaeth terfysgaeth, polisïau megis asesu cyfrifoldeb ac atebolrwydd, cyfle cyfartal, ansawdd a pherfformiad i'r dyfodol.
Course content
Amcan pennaf y fodiwl yw trafod ein dealltwriaeth o'r heddlu, ac yn ehangach, eu swyddogaeth mewn cymdeithas gyfoes. Yn y blynyddoedd diweddar, mae'r heddlu fel sefydliad wedi profi newid sylweddol a bydd y pwysau gan y Llywodraeth am ddiwygiadau pellach yn parhau.
Ystyriwn polisiau ac ymarfer gwaith cyfoes yr heddlu a'r fframwaith statudol y maent yn gweithredu.
Trafodir y newid yng nghyd-destun polisi cyfiawnder troseddol:-
eu prif swyddogaethau; yr heddlu a'r cyfryngau; atal trosedd a gweithio mewn partneriaeth; datblygiadau mewn polisi cyffuriau; yr heddlu; trefn gyhoeddus ac iawnderau dynol; asesu cyfrifoldeb, ansawdd a pherfformiad; cyfle cyfartal a rheoli i'r dyfodol.
Assessment Criteria
threshold
Yn gallu disgrifio agweddau theoretaidd a chysyniadau allweddol yn foddhaol. Dangos dealltwriaeth cysyniadol a chasglu gwybodaeth derbyniol o fewn y maes.
good
Yn gallu trafod a gwerthuso agweddau theoretaidd, data a chysyniadau allweddol yn feirniadol. Yn dangos ôl darllen a defnydd addas o lenyddiaeth wedi ei gyfeirio'n gywir.
excellent
Yn gallu dadansoddi agweddau theoretaidd, data a chysyniadau allweddol yn resymegol a grymus. Yn gallu cyflwyno gwaith sydd yn dangos dealltwriaeth ddwfn o bolisiau sy'n ymwneud â'r heddlu a phrosesau cymdeithasol ehanagach.
Learning outcomes
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Deall, dehongli a dadansoddi polisiau ac ymarfer gwaith cyfoes yr heddlu ynghyd a'r fframwaith statudol.
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Trafod yn feirniadol y newid yng nghyd-destun polisi cyfiawnder troseddol a'i oblygiadau i waith a rol yr heddlu.
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Dadansoddi'n feirniadol y dadleuon cyfoes sydd yn ymwneud a phlismona trefn gydoeddus a hawliau dynol.
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Gwerthuso ac asesu effeithiolrwydd polisi, yn enwedig cyfrifoldeb ac atebolrwydd, cyfle cyfartal, ansawdd a pherfformiad i'r dyfodol.
Assessment Methods
Type | Name | Description | Weight |
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Aseiniad | 50 | ||
Arholiad | 50 |
Teaching and Learning Strategy
Hours | ||
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Private study | Astudiaeth Breifat yn cynnwys o leiaf 177 awr yn darllen ar destynau darlithoedd a seminarau, gwaith paratoi aseiniadau ac adolygu ar gyfer arholiad. |
177 |
Lecture | 1 awr o ddarlith x 12 = 12 awr o ddarlithoedd. Mae’r dull dysgu’r modiwl yn cynnwys darlithoedd a seminarau a rhoddir y ddarlith i fynu ar Blackboard unwaith y bydd hi wedi ei thraddodi. Rhennir darlleniadau seminar yn wythnosol ymhob darlith a disgwylir i fyfyrwyr ddarllen yn eang o amgylch testynau’r darlithoedd. |
12 |
Seminar | 1 awr Seminar x 11 = 11 awr Seminarau. |
11 |
Transferable skills
- Literacy - Proficiency in reading and writing through a variety of media
- Numeracy - Proficiency in using numbers at appropriate levels of accuracy
- Self-Management - Able to work unsupervised in an efficient, punctual and structured manner. To examine the outcomes of tasks and events, and judge levels of quality and importance
- Exploring - Able to investigate, research and consider alternatives
- Information retrieval - Able to access different and multiple sources of information
- Inter-personal - Able to question, actively listen, examine given answers and interact sensitevely with others
- Critical analysis & Problem Solving - Able to deconstruct and analyse problems or complex situations. To find solutions to problems through analyses and exploration of all possibilities using appropriate methods, rescources and creativity.
- Teamwork - Able to constructively cooperate with others on a common task, and/or be part of a day-to-day working team
- Mentoring - Able to support, help, guide, inspire and/or coach others
- Management - Able to utilise, coordinate and control resources (human, physical and/or financial)
- Argument - Able to put forward, debate and justify an opinion or a course of action, with an individual or in a wider group setting
- Self-awareness & Reflectivity - Having an awareness of your own strengths, weaknesses, aims and objectives. Able to regularly review, evaluate and reflect upon the performance of yourself and others
Subject specific skills
- Y gallu i ddadansoddi, asesu a throsglwyddo gwybodaeth gymdeithasegol empirig
- Y gallu i ymgysylltu ag amrywiaeth o strategaethau ymchwil ansoddol a meintiol a’r dulliau sydd yn terddu o’r ddau ddynesiad
- Y gallu i gynnal ymchwil polisi cymdeithasol neu gymdeithasegol annibynnol
- representations of victimisation, crime and deviance, and of the main agents and institutions which respond to crime and deviance, as found in the mass media, new media, in official reports and in public opinion
- how to develop a reflective approach and a critical awareness of the values of local cultures and local politics, and of the student's own values, biography and social identity, and how to bring these skills to bear in an informed response to crime and victimisation
- awareness of how political and cultural values - including the student's own have an impact on responses to and rival interpretations of safety and security, crime
- control, policing, criminal and youth justice, sentencing, and alternative responses
- to offending
- theoretical and empirical relationships between power, crime and social change, and the impact of globalisation
- how to use empirical evidence - both quantitative and qualitative - about the distribution of crime, deviance, offending and victimisation of all kinds to explore
- relationships between these and social divisions and social change.
- the development of criminology as a distinct area of study and inquiry, and its multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary nature
- how crime, deviance and victimisation are socially and legally constructed the different sources of information about crime and victimisation, both quantitative and qualitative, and how they are produced - including their location in particular legal, political, social and ideological frameworks - and how they can be interpreted
- trends in crime, harm and victimisation
- different forms of crime and their social organisation
- different theoretical and empirical approaches to the study, analysis and explanation of crime, deviance, harm and victimisation
- relationships of crime, deviance and offending, and victimisation to social divisions such as: age, gender, sexuality, social class, race, ethnicity and religious faith
- the development, role, organisation and governance of efforts to reduce and prevent crime, deviance and harm, and to ensure personal and public safety and security in different locations; the role of the state and non-governmental agencies
- the philosophy and politics of criminalisation, victimisation, criminal justice and modes of punishment
- the use of discretion in relation to justice processes, including issues of discrimination and diversity
Courses including this module
Compulsory in courses:
- LM3Y: BA Cymdeithaseg&CriminologyCrimJ year 3 (BA/CCCJ)
- M93B: BA Criminology & Criminal Just (4yr with Incorp Foundation) year 3 (BA/CCJ1)
- M931: BA Criminology & Criminal Justice with International Exp year 4 (BA/CJIE)
- M930: BA Criminology & Criminal Justice year 3 (BA/CRIM)
- MR95: BA Criminology&Criml Just/Italian year 4 (BA/CRIT)
- MC98: BA Criminology/Psychology year 3 (BA/CRP)
- MR94: BA Criminology/Spanish year 4 (BA/CRSP)
- M3Q9: BA English Literature and Criminology and Criminal Justice year 3 (BA/ENC)
- MR91: BA French/Criminology&Crim'l Just year 4 (BA/FRCR)
- MR92: BA Criminology&CrimJustice/German year 4 (BA/GCR)
- MVX1: BA History/Criminology year 3 (BA/HCR)
- LM52: BA Health & Social Care / Criminology & Criminal Justice year 3 (BA/HSCCCJ)
- LM4X: BA Polisi Cymdeithasol & Criminology and Criminal Justice year 3 (BA/PCCCJ)
- LM40: BA Sociology & Criminology & Crim Just with International Ex year 4 (BA/SCJIE)
- LM39: BA Sociology and Criminology & Criminal Justice year 3 (BA/SCR)
- LM50: BA Social Policy and Criminology and Criminal Justice (IE) year 4 (BA/SPCIE)
- LM49: BA Social Policy/Criminology year 3 (BA/SPCR)
- M113: LLB Law with Criminology (Intl Exp) year 4 (LLB/LIK)
- M1M9: LLB Law with Criminology year 3 (LLB/LWCR)
- M1MB: LLB Law with Criminology (4 yr with Incorporated Foundation) year 3 (LLB/LWCR1)
- M1MP: LLB Law with Criminology with Placement Year year 4 (LLB/LWCRP)
- M932: MSocSci Criminology & Criminal Justice year 3 (MSOCSCI/CCJ)
Optional in courses:
- X316: BA Astudiaethau Plentyndod ac Ieuenctid a Chymdeithaseg year 3 (BA/APIC)
- X318: BA Astudiaeth Plentyndod ac Ieuenctid a Pholisi Cymdeithasol year 3 (BA/APIPC)
- LL3M: BA Cymdeithaseg & Health and Social Care year 3 (BA/CHSC)
- X317: BA Childhood and Youth Studies and Social Policy year 3 (BA/CYSP)
- X315: BA Childhood and Youth Studies and Sociology year 3 (BA/CYSS)
- LL13: BA Sociology/Economics year 3 (BA/ECS)
- LL2B: BA Sociology & Economics (4 yr with Incorporated Foundation) year 3 (BA/ECS1)
- LQ3J: BA English Lang. & Sociology year 3 (BA/ELSOC)
- V100: BA History year 3 (BA/H)
- V10F: BA History [with Foundation Year] year 3 (BA/HF)
- 8B03: BA History (with International Experience) year 4 (BA/HIE)
- LL53: BA Health & Social Care/Sociology year 3 (BA/HSCS)
- LL54: BA Hlth & Scl Care/Social Policy year 3 (BA/HSCSP)
- LVJ1: BA Cymdeithaseg/Hanes year 3 (BA/HSW)
- V140: BA Modern & Contemporary History year 3 (BA/MCH)
- V130: BA Mediaeval and Early Modern His year 3 (BA/MEMH)
- LP33: BA Media Studies and Sociology year 3 (BA/MSSOC)
- L401: Polisi Cymdeithasol year 3 (BA/PC)
- LL5K: Polisi Cymdeithasol & Health and Social Care year (BA/PCHSC)
- CL83: BA Sociology/Psychology year 3 (BA/PS)
- L300: BA Sociology year 3 (BA/S)
- L31B: BA Sociology (4 year with Incorporated Foundation) year 3 (BA/S1)
- 3L3Q: BA Sociology and English Literature year 3 (BA/SEL)
- L30F: BA Sociology [with Foundation Year] year 3 (BA/SF)
- LV31: BA Sociology/History year 3 (BA/SH)
- 8Y70: BA Sociology (with International Experience) year 4 (BA/SIE)
- LQ31: BA Sociology/Linguistics year 3 (BA/SL)
- L41B: BA Social Policy (4 year with Incorporated Foundation) year 3 (BA/SOCP1)
- L402: BA Social Policy year 3 (BA/SOCPOL)
- L40F: BA Social Policy [with Foundation Year] year 3 (BA/SOCPOLF)
- LL34: BA Sociology and Social Policy year 3 (BA/SOCSP)
- LM50: BA Social Policy and Criminology and Criminal Justice (IE) year 4 (BA/SPCIE)
- LM49: BA Social Policy/Criminology year 3 (BA/SPCR)
- LL14: BA Social Policy/Economics year 3 (BA/SPEC)
- LL1B: BA Social Policy & Economics (4yr with Incorp Foundation) year 3 (BA/SPEC1)
- LV41: BA Social Policy/History year 3 (BA/SPH)
- CL84: BA Social Policy/Psychology year 3 (BA/SPP)
- CL85: BA Social Policy & Psychology with International Experience year 3 (BA/SPPIE)
- LVK1: BA Polisi Cymdeithasol/Hanes year 3 (BA/SPWH)
- LQK5: BA Polisi Cymdeithasol a Chymraeg year 3 (BA/SPWW)
- LVL1: BA Pol Cymd/Han Cymru year 3 (BA/SPWWH)
- L3LK: BA Cymd gyda Phol Cymd year 3 (BA/SSPW)
- LQH5: BA Cymdeithaseg a Chymraeg year 3 (BA/SWW)
- LVH1: BA Cymdeithaseg/Hanes Cymru year 3 (BA/SWWH)
- VV12: BA Welsh History/History year 3 (BA/WHH)
- LVH2: BA Welsh History/Sociology year 3 (BA/WHS)
- LQ35: BA Cymraeg and Sociology year 3 (BA/WS)
- M108: LLB Law with Social Policy (International Experience) year 4 (LLB/LIF)
- M1L4: LLB Law with Social Policy year 3 (LLB/LSP)
- M1LB: LLB Law with Social Policy (4 yr with Incorp Foundation) year 3 (LLB/LSP1)
- V102: MArts History with International Experience year 3 (MARTS/HIE)
- V101: MArts History year 3 (MARTS/HIST)
- L302: MSocSci Sociology year 3 (MSOCSCI/S)
- L403: MSocSci Social Policy year 3 (MSOCSCI/SP)