Policing: Systems and Practice
Duration
- One Semester or equivalent
Contact hours
- 24 hours face to face + blended
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning. For Online unit delivery, learning is conducted exclusively online.
2024 teaching periods
Hawthorn Higher Ed. Semester 2 |
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Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Swinburne Online Teaching Period 1 |
Swinburne Online Teaching Period 3 | |
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Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Aims and objectives
2. Describe and analyse practices, processes and procedures of police forces in relation training and strategies of law enforcement
3. Evaluate different approaches, both applied and theoretical, to policing crime
4. Analyse policing systems for effectiveness and responsiveness across a diverse Australian community
Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment and content.
Teaching methods
Hawthorn
Type | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
Online (asynchronous) Lecture | 1 | 12 | 12 |
On-Campus Class | 2 | 12 | 24 |
Specified Activities Various | 2 | 12 | 24 |
Unspecified Learning Activities Various | 7.5 | 12 | 90 |
TOTAL | 150 hours |
Swinburne Online
Type | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
Live Online Class | 3 | 12 | 36 |
Online Directed Online Learning and Independent Learning | 9.5 | 12 | 114 |
TOTAL | 150 hours |
Assessment
Types | Individual/Group Role | Weighting | Unit Learning Outcomes (ULOs) |
Essay | Individual | 40% | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
Poster | Individual/Group | 30% | 1, 2, 3, 4 |
Quizzes | Individual | 30% | 2, 3, 4 |
Content
- History and Development of Modern Policing
- The role and Function of the police in the 21st Century
- Policing strategies
- Police Culture
- Police Governance and Accountability
- Work Integrated Learning in Policing
- Policing Diversity Communities
- Policing Indigenous Communities
- Private and Plural Policing
- Transnational Policing
- Technology & Policing
- Evidence Based Policing
Study resources
- Reading materials.