Admission requirements
Only students of the MSc Crisis and Security Management can take this course.
Students will participate on a ‘first come first served’ bases, with a maximum number of participants of 30. At least 8 students must enroll for the course to take place.
Description
The evolution in Western countries towards late modern societies led to a range of challenges in governance of crime and social disorder. Security issues became more frequent, more intrusive, more liquid and more complex. At the same time, insecurity about daily life conditions, and about crime and social disorder issues, grew. Analytical insights in the ideologies and assumptions behind late modern modes of governance (Bauman, Garland, Giddens) will be addressed. Etiological dilemma’s on the causes of crime and disorder will be illustrated, with the main focus on late modern governance modes in Europa and abroad. A second innovative governance challenge is the increasing importance of metropolises as nodes of policing change. National governing programs are often subordinated to, and increasingly oriented around, the interests of powerful city-regions. Metropolises are the key nodal points or ‘command centres’ in more networked and globally integrated social relations.
While in urban areas crime and disorder issues are often covered by public police forces this course develops on public policing in different EU-countries. Four different police models will be discussed: (1) lawful policing model, (2) community policing, (3) public-private divide and the (4) military-bureaucratic police model. At least, police systems in different EU-countries will be analyzed, and a cross evaluation between models and systems will be made, with special focus on governance in urban settings (big metropolises). Results from the international research project ‘Policing European metropolises. The politics of security in city regions’ (Routledge) will be discussed in class, thus providing a research based learning environment.
Students will learn to explain governance responses on crime and social disorder as well from an etiological perspective on the causes of crime (what, origin, frequency, patterns, appearance) as from a governance point of view.
Theoretical lectures will be complemented by practical exercises, role-play and presentations in smaller groups where a ‘real life’ policy environment will be created and students can illustrate their ability to convert theoretical insights from the lectures into a concrete policy setting.
Course objectives
- Students gain advanced insights in the historical developments of etiology of crime and disorder and the actual etiological theoretical tendencies and scientific discussions in this field and learn how to find and use scientific international data sources on the morphology of the different layers in the penal justice system (such as police, public prosecutor, courts and execution), on international crime data and on international victim surveys.
- "Students will be able to distinguish different police models such as lawful policing model, community policing, public-private divide and the military-bureaucratic police model and police systems in order to reproduce these differences to the situation in a specific country
- Students gain advanced insights in the actual policy debate on the governance of crime and disorder as well in Europe as in the US and in political stated goals for problems of crime and disorder in order to critically compare those policy debates with academic insights.
- Students can apply these theoretical and policy insights by combining them and are able to detect theoretical underpinnings of actual policy goals and assumptions in the governance of crime and disorder debate and apply these to different cases
- Students will develop analytical and critical writing skills by writing an comparative individual paper on two metropolises of their choice on the aspect of plural policing and on specific policy options for tackling crime and disorder
- Students will be able to organize a critical and lively debate (pro’s and cons) in groups on contested and actual themes and work in groups towards a presentation (with blogs, newsflashes and a powerpoint presentation)
- Students are able to select relevant theoretical notions from academic literature on police and policing and translate these into critical and understandable questions for quest speakers (as well for an international academic expert on police studies as for police field workers)
Timetable
On the CSM front page of the E-guide you will find links to the website and timetables, uSis and Blackboard.
Mode of instruction
The course will exist of 6 lectures and 1 tutorial with students presentations and group debate in the last lecture (7). During the lectures mandatory non-graded exercises will be organized, like analyzing and presenting actual policy measures and strategies based on policy and theoretical assumptions on the causes of crime, role-play, commenting blogs etc... Film and documentary material will be shown and discussed.
Course Load
140 hours
Hours required for lectures and presentation: 7 weeks X 3 hours/week = 21
Self-study hours: 119 hours
including reading mandatory readings and assignments
Assessment method
The final grade consists of two mandatory assignments:
(1) Group paper (10%) and group presentation (10%) (grades equal for all group members)
(2) An individual final paper on comparing governance arrangements and dispositions in in metropolises (80%).
Leading reference system for both papers is APA.
Failed partial grades weighing less than 30% should be compensated by a passed partial grade weighing more than 30%. The calculated grade must be at least 5,50 in order to pass the course.
If no passing grade is obtained, a retake of the individual final paper is possible.
Blackboard
Blackboard will be available 10 days before lecture 1. Students have to enroll on Blackboard.
Reading list
See Blackboard. The reading list will be provided in the course outline and will be available 10 days before lecture 1. The mandatory readings are scientific articles for each lecture to be obtained by the e-library.
Registration
Use both uSis and Blackboard to register for every course.
Register for every course and workgroup via uSis. Some courses and workgroups have a limited number of participants, so register on time (before the course starts). In uSis you can access your personal schedule and view your results. Registration in uSis is possible from four weeks before the start of the course.
Contact
Dr. Elke Devroe
Institute of Security and Global Affairs - Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
Wijnhaven, Turfmarkt 99, 2511 DV The Hague room 4.16
Office hours: Tuesday – Thursday 09-18 h (after appointment)
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