SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT:

Teaching Block 1:

Working in a team present a case to an interest group – (Peers 50%)
(Assessors 50%) Learning Outcomes 1-8

Teaching Block 2:

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

(50%) Learning Outcomes 1-8

Additional Assessment Details

Working towards the assessment tasks will be a key element of the learning, and tutors will be available to guide students through the process. Face to face contact sessions focussed on assessment activities will be scheduled into the timetable.

Indicative Content

The module allows students to research the functions of the ministry of Justice, HM Prisons, NOMS, Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) and their subcontractors, Contracted Prisons and Young Offenders’ Institutions (YOIs), Secure Training Centres, Secure Children’s 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
6. Drug abuse
7. Mental Health
8. Prison reform
9. Governance
10. Escort Services

1. Demonstrate an understanding of National Offender
Management 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. Using research and academic opinion to provide an analysis of several British cases. These cases rely on historical and contemporary data. Applying this knowledge to probation delivery in England and Wales through the National Probation Service and community rehabilitation companies.
Analysis

4. Using problem solving to support the justice system and prevent future victims by cutting crimes and reducing re-offending.
Problem Solving

5. Engage in directed research using appropriate strategies to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of probation providers and prison services. Carrying out research that gives the best possible economic and social return.
Enquiry

6. 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

7. Demonstrate punctuality and regular attendance. Demonstrate effective personal administration. Demonstrate the ability to work effectively in a changing environment. Develop solutions to work based problems in a real time setting with the ability to analyse and/or develop strategies to instigate change. To demonstrate highly effective personal administration.
Resilience

8. 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.
Working with Others

The learning strategy for this module is based around students committing a total of 300 hours of activities, split between 66 hours of direct contact with a tutor and 234 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 in order 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

DIRECTED AND INDEPENDENT STUDY (234 hours)
Independent study includes research and preparation for the work to be undertaken in the smaller group sessions and consolidation of understanding afterwards. Directed study opportunities, such as online tests, are provided to enable students to revise key topics at important stages in the module. Directed and independent study aims to develop a deeper understanding of issues within this area of criminological research. Students are provided with guidance in their module materials, including via Blackboard. Completion of the tasks encourages students to assess their progress, identify strengths and weaknesses and manage their time more effectively.
Pre-seen guidance to support research for the assessment is provided.

Module Study Guide

Access to appropriate primary and secondary legal resources

Computing facilities to access material available via Blackboard, and the Web

Handbook on Prisons 2nd Edition
Edited by Yvonne Jewkes, Ben Crewe, Jamie Bennett © 2016 – Routledge


Anne Robinson, 2011. Foundations for Offender Management: Theory, Law and Policy for Contemporary Practice Paperback

What Works in Offender Rehabilitation: An Evidence-Based Approach to Assessment and Treatment by Leam A. Craig 2013