1. Demonstrate an understanding of Her Majesty’s Prison & Probation Service. Explain how people serve the sentences and orders handed out by courts, both in prisons and in the community.
Knowledge & Understanding

2. Apply learning to consider how prisons are run in England and Wales including the HM Prison Service that manages the public-sector prisons and also contracts run by the private sector.
Application

3. Communicate complex ideas, problems and solutions clearly and succinctly through a variety of media. To present findings verbally to a panel or audience in group learning and assessment settings.
Communication

4. A clearly identified contribution to a team effort, in the realisation of a common goal. The ability to have some positive influence on the other members of a group, towards the realisation of a common goal. The ability to work with other people, accepting responsibility and recognising individual strengths and weaknesses, so that individual or common goals can be achieved.
Problem Solving

1. SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT:

Teaching Block 1:

An assessed Role Play based on an industry devised problem requiring the demonstration of communication skills and the application of offender management techniques.

(100%) Learning Outcomes 1-4

100% Ten Minutes

Indicative Content

The module allows students to research the functions of the Ministry of Justice, and Her Majesty’s Prison & Probation Service (HMPPS), prisoner escort contracts, Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) and their subcontractors, Contracted Prisons and Young Offenders Institutions (YOIs), Secure Training Centres, Secure Children Homes and Youth Offending Teams. The module follows the progression on an offender through the offender management system.

Issues covered include:
1. Delivering the sentences and orders of the court
2. Establishing positive, safe, secure and decent environments for managing offenders and delivering offender services reducing reoffending and protecting the public.
3. Radicalisation
4. Theories around Control and restraint
5. Deaths and the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman
6. Drug abuse
7. Mental Health
8. Prison reform
9. Governance
10. Escort Services

The learning strategy for this module is based around students committing a total of 150 hours of activities, split between 36 hours of direct contact with a tutor and 114 hours of directed and independent study, together with preparation for and completion of assessment tasks.

WHOLE GROUP SESSIONS
In these sessions, students are introduced to the general concepts underlying the subject and provided with an outline of the relevant legal principles and cases. Teaching materials, including the use of the VLE platform, supplement the sessions. These sessions guide students towards consolidating their knowledge and understanding

SMALLER GROUP SESSIONS
These are preceded by a period of independent learning. The module materials contain indicative reading for each session, together with subjects for discussion and case studies. The purpose of the smaller group sessions is to help students assess their understanding of a topic, to develop analytical skills, and to learn how to apply criminological principles to factual situations. For all smaller group sessions, there are questions to help guide reading and preparation. The sessions encourage active participation and interaction among students and between students and tutors. A variety of teaching methods is adopted to encourage the development of essential skills such as intellectual rigour, communication, problem solving, research, teamwork, negotiation, presentation, referencing, judgement and the appropriate use of IT

Easton, S. and Piper, C. (2016) Sentencing and Punishment: The Quest for Justice (4th edn) OUP

Scott, D. and Flynn, N. (2014) Prisons & Punishment, The Essentials (2nd edn) Sage

Robinson, A. (2011). Foundations for Offender Management: Theory, Law and Policy for Contemporary Practice Policy Press: Bristol

The module allows students to research the functions of the Ministry of Justice, and Her Majesty’s Prison & Probation Service (HMPPS), prisoner escort contracts, Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) and their subcontractors, Contracted Prisons and Young Offenders Institutions (YOIs), Secure Training Centres, Secure Children Homes and Youth Offending Teams. The module follows the progression on an offender through the offender management system.

Issues covered include:
1. Delivering the sentences and orders of the court
2. Establishing positive, safe, secure and decent environments for managing offenders and delivering offender services reducing reoffending and protecting the public.
3. Radicalisation
4. Theories around Control and restraint
5. Deaths and the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman
6. Drug abuse
7. Mental Health
8. Prison reform
9. Governance
10. Escort Services