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Offerings

MURDOCH-S2-EXT-2018-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S2-INT-2018-ONGOING

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Learning outcomes

1.
Analyse different and competing understandings of policing.
2.
Explain and analyse the broader political and social context in which policing regimes, institutions and their agencies operate.
3.
Assess and critically evaluate different strategies to police terror.
4.
Effectively communicate complex information, concepts and problems with respect to policing counterterrorism through clear and accurate written work and video or oral presentations.
5.
Demonstrate well developed interpersonal skills and ethical practice in collaborative work.

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Unit content:

This unit consists of the following eleven topics:

1. What is policing? Theories of policing Part 1

2. What is policing? Theories of policing Part 2

3. How did we get to now? The emergence of the modern police

4. Transformations in policing

5. Preventing and Policing Terror: Counterterrorism regimes in the comparative perspective

6. Who polices? The institutional politics of counterterrorism

7. Accountability in Counterterrorism

8. Policing Counterterrorism Transnationally

9. Australia’s regional counterterrorism strategy (AFP guest lecture)

10. Privatised Counterterror

11. The Future of Policing