DA4078 - Risk and Vulnerability (PCDA)

You will learn through a series of different delivery styles which will include traditional taught lectures to cover theoretical / procedural aspects of the curriculum. These will be supplemented with seminar and workshop sessions including role-play scenarios where you will be a more active learner, making connections between theory and procedure in practice.

You will be supported through active participation and discussion during seminars and workshops. These offer a unique opportunity to fully understand the criminological, legal, and business theory, as well as procedural policy and legislation underpinning the role and responsibilities of the Police Constable, the wider police organisation, and criminal justice system. All lecture, seminar and workshop material will be available on the University’s eLearning Portal, supplemented with guidance on further reading relevant to the subjects. Opportunities for formative assessment and feedback will help you to prepare for summative assessment. Written and oral summative assessment feedback will also be provided to allow you to understand how you performed and how you can build on this performance in subsequent assessments within your programme.

All modules at Northumbria include a range of reading materials that students are expected to engage with. The reading list for this module can be found at: http://readinglists.northumbria.ac.uk
(Reading List service online guide for academic staff this containing contact details for the Reading List team – http://library.northumbria.ac.uk/readinglists)

Knowledge & Understanding (K&U):  

K&U

You will demonstrate an appreciation of the dynamic nature of the challenges relating to policing and the criminal justice system.



You will assess the nature, extent and impact of vulnerability and victimisation.



Intellectual/Professional skills & abilities (IPSA): 

IPSA

You will demonstrate understanding discipline of criminology with particular emphasis upon the legal and criminal justice system as relevant to policing.

You will demonstrate analytic and presentations skills in relation to module content.

Personal Values Attributes (Global / Cultural awareness, Ethics, Curiosity) (PVA): 

PVA

Demonstrate the capacity to solve problems, be innovative, creative, and able to communicate ideas and arguments effectively to others both orally, visually and in writing.

Personal Extenuating Circumstances (PECs) Policy restrictions apply to all assessed components.

There are both formative and summative assessments within this module.

Summative assessment component 1: 1500-word academic essay (this is weighted as 100% of the module mark).

(KU 1, 2 & 3; IPSA 1; PVA 1)



Opportunities for formative feedback include:

Practice role play scenarios.

Study Skills Lecture.

In class group activities including presentations and case studies.

Submission of an A4 bullet point draft of the presentation and an A4 bullet point draft essay plan.

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This three-week module provides vital insight into the importance of understanding and recognising how vulnerabilities impact upon victims, offenders, and the work of the police. You will consider what vulnerability means and the principles and practices of safeguarding. Ideas of vulnerability will be explored through a variety of crimes including, but not limited to, domestic violence, sexual assault, child criminal exploitation and abuse, terrorism, and hate crime. You will also draw upon criminological and sociological theory to better understand the root causes of crime and will consider from this, ways to prevent and reduce crime. Through these topics you will learn how police operate in terms of processing cases, suspects, and victims from the initial response through to the offender management processes, the complex environment in which police operate, and the importance and challenges of multiagency working.