• E4J University Module Series: Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice

• Module 5: Police Accountability, Integrity and Oversight

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

  • Topic 1: Policing in democracies and the need for accountability, integrity, oversight
  • Topic 2: Key mechanisms and actors in police accountability and oversight
  • Topic 3: Crosscutting and contemporary issues in police accountability
  • Summary
  • References

• Exercises

• Case studies

• Possible class structure  

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Student assessment

• Additional teaching tools

• Guidelines to develop a stand-alone course

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• First published in July 2019
  

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  This module is a resource for lecturers  

 

Possible class structure

 

This section contains recommendations for a teaching sequence and timing intended to achieve learning outcomes through a three-hour class. The lecturer may wish to disregard or shorten some of the segments below to give more time to other elements, including introduction, icebreakers, conclusion or short breaks.

• Introduction & Exercise 1 [20 minutes]
• Lecture: The role of police, need for accountability and oversight, key oversight mechanisms [50 minutes]
• Break
• Exercise 3: Group discussion - Scenario on the reform of police complaints system - [50 minutes]
• Lecture: Cross cutting and contemporary issues in police accountability (recommendation: maximum two out of four issues) [35 minutes]
• Exercise 6: on Gender or Exercise 7 on Profiling [25 minutes]
• Conclusion: Wrap up of the class & explanation of the post-class assignment [5 minutes]

[Total: 185 mins]

 

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