To introduce students into public safety governance, especially the functioning of public and private forms of policing, and into the most important social-scientific theories that elucidate and explain these forms of governance.
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This course focuses on public safety governance, especially the functioning of the public and private police. Students get acquainted with the main social scientific theories on policing and police management and learn to apply them to current issues. On completing this course, students know the characteristics of the Dutch criminal justice system, its historical background and the differences with other European systems. They know the main social scientific theories on policing and police management and have shown that during discussions in the classroom. They can identify contemporary strategies in policing and know what is known of their effectiveness. Students are able to apply theoretical concepts to current problems in safety governance and have shown that by writing two short essays. They know how patrolmen manage safety problems at street level and why these problems are managed in these ways. They know how criminal investigation is organized and how its effectiveness is measured. They know the most important forms of derailment of the police and their main causes.
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