• E4J University Module Series: Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice

• Module 4: Use of Force and Firearms

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

• • Topic 1.  The context for use of force by law enforcement officials
  • Topic 2.  The legal framework
  • Topic 3.  The general principles of use of force in law enforcement
  • Topic 4.  The use of firearms
  • Topic 5.  The use of "less-lethal" weapons
  • Topic 6.  The protection of especially vulnerable groups
  • Topic 7.  The use of force during assemblies
  • 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 March 2019
  

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  This module is a resource for lecturers  

 

Additional teaching tools

 

This section includes links to relevant teaching aides such as PowerPoint slides, video material, case studies, and other resources that could help the lecturer teach the issues covered by the Module. The slides and other resources can be adapted by lecturers.

PowerPoint presentations

• General principles governing police use of force
• International legal rules on the use of firearms

 

Video material

• Use of Taser against a man armed with a knife (52 seconds)
• • Conducted energy weapons can be an alternative to firearms in certain circumstances. This brief footage shows police using a taser on a man who is holding a knife outside Buckingham Palace.
• Shooting of a man in Dallas, Texas, carrying a screwdriver (watch the first 2:45 minutes)
• • The first 2:45 minutes of this raw footage from a police body worn camera shows police shooting a mentally ill man who was holding a screwdriver.

 

Websites

• Law on Police Use of Force Worldwide
• UNHCHR - Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions

 

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