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Module GLOBAL POLICING

Module code: LW665
Credits: 10
Semester: 1
Department: SCHOOL OF LAW AND CRIMINOLOGY
International: Yes
Overview Overview
 

Contemporary Issues in Global Policing (Global Policing) undertakes a broad and critical look at the shared challenges for policing in different parts of the world.

Police forces across the globe are faced with similar and often complex ‘crime problems’. These include the role of the police in:

• ‘fighting’ the ‘war on drugs’
• addressing gender-based violence
• negotiating challenges to police authority in the form of vigilantism

Global Policing explores how these crime problems have emerged in different contexts and states.

Police forces across the globe also face similar organisational challenges in addressing crime problems. These include:

• questions about the democratic legitimacy of certain police tactics
• doubts about the evidence base for certain politically popular police operations
• concerns about the human rights implications flowing from police crime control practices

Global Policing examines these organisational challenges, and the policing philosophies that have emerged in response to them.

While in many ways police culture is institutionally closed, ideas about how to ‘do policing’ have proliferated in international debates among police practitioners. Global Policing explores these philosophies and strategies of policing, and how they have spread and influenced policing in different states.

Some of the globalised ‘crime problems’ which attract police attention have encouraged unprecedented levels of cooperation between police authorities in different jurisdictions. This has the potential to undermining traditional conceptions of sovereignty and the nation state. Other ‘crime problems’, such as the policing of migration, serve instead to reinforce these same ideas. Global Policing critically examines transnational policing through the lens of national sovereignty.

Topics include (but are not limited to):
1. Policing Frameworks and Philosophies (e.g. policing ‘by consent’ and ‘through human rights’)
2. Transnational Policing (e.g. Interpol & Europol)
3. The Politics of Crime Control
4. Rationing of Policing
5. Policing Complex Harms (e.g. gender-based violence and organised crime)
6. Policing in New, Developing, Post-colonial, and Post-Conflict states (e.g. policing the ‘war on drugs’ and vigilante policing)

Approach to teaching and learning in Global Policing:

This is an advanced degree module, and students are expected to come to class well-prepared, having read assigned materials.

The teaching and learning approach in this module will be a discussion seminar format. There are assigned materials each week, around which the seminar discussion is centred.


This module is taught by Dr Cian Ó Concubhair.

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Open Assessment
 
Open Autumn Supplementals/Resits
 
Open Timetable
 
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