Policing and Crime
UndergraduateMAQ-PICX20202025
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Prior study needed
- Duration
- 13 weeks
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Policing and Crime
About this subject
On successful completion of this subject , you will be able to:
- Describe the historical development of contemporary policing, as well as police structures, management, powers, as well as reform and accountability mechanisms
- Research, locate and summarise academic texts
- Examine the social implications of real world policing methodologies
- Critically explore contemporary issues in policing, including: training and culture; strategies; ethics, corruption and accountability; and the use of force
- A week-by-week guide to the topics you will explore in this subject will be provided in your study materials.
This subject introduces students to police and policing and their role and purpose in contemporary society. Policing is and always has been a complex and contentious aspect of society be it in crime prevention and or social control. This unit provides students with the theoretical tools required to make sense of the different forms of policing and the concepts that underpin them. The unit will critically explore the history of the police and policing, how officers are trained, corruption, the use of force, police culture through to policing transnational organised crime. Through analysis of historical and current policing issues, students will learn to assess the relevance and cause and effects of crime and how it is policed.
- Reflective writing (5%)
- Use of force incident from social media post or article (15%)
- Podcast analysis (30%)
- Annotated bibliography (20%)
- Reflective writing (10%)
- Viva/oral examination (15%)
- questionnaire (5%)
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Entry requirements
Prior study
You must have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject:
one of
Others
Pre-requisite
50cp at 1000 level or above
NCCW (pre-2020 units)
PICX102, PICT202
NCCW (2020 and onwards)
PICT2020 Policing and Crime
Additional requirements
- Other requirements -
Students who have an Academic Standing of Suspension or Exclusion under Macquarie University's Academic Progression Policy are not permitted to enrol in OUA units offered by Macquarie University. Students with an Academic Standing of Suspension or Exclusion who have enrolled in units through OUA will be withdrawn.
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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