Description
Risk analysis procedures. Methodology, design, and management of public safety policies. Fear of crime. Urban policy, crime, and public safety. Proactive policing models. POP approach (problem-oriented policing).
Study and understanding of the different policies of Public Safety. International Models of public policy. Risk analysis procedures. Methodology. Design and management of public security policies. The fear of crime. Urban policy. Crime and public safety. Proactive policing models and approximation POP (Problem-Oriented Policing)
General competencies
- Ability to formulate hypotheses about designing, planning, and implementing activities.
- Ability to analyze data, including qualitative information, and an understanding of crime statistics.
- Ability to identify criminological problems, ask questions about them, and plan their scientific study.
Specific competencies
- Ability to evaluate and apply relevant techniques for achieving safety for people, facilities, and activities, and know how to apply them in specific situations and contexts.
- Ability for specialized analysis on the social factors that influence crime, and delve into the dynamics about their appearance and influence.
- Ability to select and apply the most current and advanced strategies for research and data assessment towards the criminal phenomenon, specifically designed for specialized intervention in specific criminological and victimological problems.
- Advanced ability to identify the legal aspects of crime from the perspective of criminal law in order to delve deeper, using specialized analysis, into its relationship with offenders and victims.
- Ability to design advanced intervention programs in the specialized field of crime prevention.
- Ability to define specific and advanced crime prevention programs and specifically evaluate the results of their application.
Objectives (Learning outcomes)
- Know and understand the different approach to public security policies both nationally internationally comno
- Know the different definitions of the term "security", the differences between public safety and public security, as well as linking with both Human Rights.
- Improve understanding of public action by the student, and I rolled from its overall governance approach
- Understand and structure public safety issues as well as the process of inclusion in the agenda
- Be able to present and explain the various models of public security policies at the national and international level, knowing how to choose the alternative according to the context, implement and assess
- Learn delve into the various structures and global security policies, getting identify the different actors and institutions involved in this field
Contents
Teaching units
Basic bibliography
- Garrido Genovés, Vicente. Stangeland, Per / Redondo, Santiago. "Principios de criminología". Valencia Tirant lo Blanch 2006.
- Recasens i Brunet, Amadeu. "La seguridad y sus políticas". Barcelona Atelier 2007.
- Cohen, Ernesto. Franco, Rolando. "Evaluación de proyectos sociales". Madrid [etc.] Siglo XXI 1993.
- Bayley, D.H. "Modelos de actividad policial.". Buenos Aires: Prometeo Libros. (2010).
- Beck, U. "La sociedad del riesgo: hacia una nueva modernidad.". Barcelona: Paidós Ibérica. (1998).
- Barcelona, J. "Policía y constitución". Madrid: Tecnos. (1997).
- Borja, J. y Castells, M. "Local y global. La gestión de las ciudades en la era de la información.". Madrid: Taurus. (1997).
- Curbert, J. "El rey desnudo. La gobernabilidad de la seguridad ciudadana.". Barcelona: Editorial UOC. (2009).
- Guillen, F. "Policia i seguretar.". Servei de Publicacions de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Edición: 1 (6 de agosto de 2012).
- Loubet, J.L. "La Policía". Madrid: Acento Editorial. (1992).
- Manzi, J. y Helsper, E. "El sentido de la seguridad en Chile". Santiago: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. (2003).
- Medina, J.J. "Políticas y estrategias de prevención del delito y seguridad ciudadana.". Madrid: EDISOFER. (2011).
- Monjardet, D. "Lo que hace la Policía. Sociología de la fuerza pública.". Buenos Aires: Prometeo libros. (2010).
- Recasens, A. "Sistema penal y problemas sociales". Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch.
- Recasens, A. "La seguridad y sus políticas.". Barcelona: Atelier. (2007).
- Robert, P. "Les politiques de prévention de la delinquance a l¿aune de la recherche. Un bilan international.". Paris: L¿Harmattan. (1991).
- Robert, P. "El ciudadano, el delito y el Estado". Barcelona: Atelier. (2003).
- Ramírez, A. "Estrategias sociales de Policía". Madrid: Dykinson. (2005).
- Rico, J. M. "Ciudad y Seguridad en América Latina.". Chile: Flacso. (2005).
- Rico, J.M. y Salas, L. "Inseguridad ciudadana y policía.". Madrid: Tecnos. (1998).
- Torrente, D. "La Sociedad Policial.". Madrid: CIS-Universidad de Barcelona (1997).
- Vallès, J.M. "Ciencia Política. Una introducción.". Barcelona: Ariel. (2002).
Complementary bibliography
- Ballart, Xavier. Ramió, Carles. "Ciencia de la Administración". Valencia Tirant lo Blanch D.L.2000.
- Ericson, R.V, y Haggerty, K.D. "Policing the risk society". Clarendon: Studies in Criminology. (1997).
- Goldstein, H. "Problem-Oriented Policing. ". New York: McGraw Hill. (1990).
- Kelsen, H. "Teoría pura del Derecho. ". México: UNAM. (1981).
- Loubet del Bayle, J.L. "De la Police et du contrôle social. ". París: Les éditions du CERF. (2012).
- Mayntz, R. "Sociología de la organización (7ª Ed.)". Madrid: Alianza. (1996).
- Newburn, T. "Criminology". Portland: Willan Publishing. (2007).
- Reiner, R. "The Politics of the Police. ". Oxford University Press. (2000).
- Torrente, D. "La sociedad policial. Poder, trabajo y cultura en una organización local de policía.". Madrid: Universidad de Barcelona-Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas. (1997).
- Vidales, C. y Carque J.L. "Policía Comunitaria. Una Policía para la sociedad del siglo XXI". Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch (2014).
- Newburn, T. "Policing. Key Readings". Cullompton y Portland: Willan Publishing.
- Byrne, J. and Rebovich, D. "The New technology of Crime, Law and Social Control". Monsey, NY: Criminal Justice Press (2007).
- López, D. "El aparato policial en España". Barcelona: Ariel. (1987).
- Martín, M. "La profesión de Policía. ". Madrid: Centro de Investigaciones sociológicas. (1991).
- Reiss, A. J., Jr. "The Police and the Public". Yale University Press, 1973.
- Skolnick, J. "Justice without trial: Law enforcement in democratic society. ". New York: John Wiley & Sons. .
- Walker, S. "A critical history of police reform. ". Lexington, Massachusetts: D.C. Heath. (1977).
- Alderson, J. "Policing Freedom. ". Plymouth: Macdonald and Evans. (1979).
- Harrington, M. " The Other America: Poverty in the United States. ". New York: Macmillan. (1997).
- Ott, J.S. "The organizational culture perspective". Pacific Grove, California: Brooks Cole Publishing Company. (1989).
Software
Methodology and grading
Methodology
- Case studies: Learning through the analysis of actual or simulated cases in order to interpret and resolve them by employing various alternative solution procedures.
- Cooperative learning: Develop active learning through cooperative working strategies among students and promote shared responsibility to reach group goals.
- Lecture: Pass on knowledge and activate cognitive processes in students, encouraging their participation.
- Solving exercises and problems: Exercise, test, and apply previous knowledge through routine repetition.
Grading
- 1. Student Portfolios: 10% final grade
2. Final exam type test: 45% of final mark
3. Works: 45% final grade