SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT:

Teaching Block 1:

A PROJECT EVALUATION length 3000 WORDS weighted at 100%.

A project report detailing the chosen aspects offender management within the context of the Award (3000 words): Learning Outcomes 1-6, weighted at 100%

Community Justice is a specific area within Criminal Justice that focuses on the punishment and rehabilitation of offenders in the community. There is good evidence to show that community punishments can often be more effective than custodial sentences in preventing re-offending with some categories of offenders.
Topics covered include:

1: An introduction to community justice
2: Historical background
3: Probation services
4: Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs)
5: Community Sentences
6: Transforming Rehabilitation
7: Working with service-users
8: Active Risk Management System
(ARMS)
9: Restorative justice
10: case studies

Through negotiation, the student will select and obtain approval to undertake a project that will focus on an aspect of offender management of community justice.

The aim is to allow students, in negotiation with a tutor and (typically) a practitioner to identify an aspect or aspects of study which will specifically meet their own learning and development needs.

The project should focus on one or more of the key aspects of community justice and offender management functions which have been studied on the award together with work related problem based learning, thereby enhancing knowledge and skills in the context of the student's potential employability.

1. Demonstrate an understanding of the criminological theories that attempt to explain the phenomena of serial killing. To differentiate between serial killers, mass murders and spree killers.
Knowledge & Understanding

2. Apply the criminological theories on to a number of British case studies. Using the often competing theories to compare and contrast cases.
Application

3. Using research and academic opinion to provide an analysis of several British cases. These cases rely on historical and contemporary data.
Analysis

4. Using problem solving to determine whether serial killing is a distinctly modern phenomenon, a
product of relatively recent social and cultural conditions. Provide fresh insights by accentuating the broad institutional frameworks, motivations, and opportunity structures within which serial killing occurs.
Problem Solving

5. Engage in directed research using appropriate strategies.
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

The learning strategy for this module is based around students committing a total of 150 hours of activities, split between 33 hours of direct contact with a tutor and 117 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 (117 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

Privatising Probation: Is Transforming Rehabilitation the End of the Probation Ideal? 2015 by John Deering and Martina Feilzer

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

Probation: Working With Offenders (Criminal Justice Series)
Rob Canton
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/law-trove-criminal-justice-and-criminology-2015-9780191820083?cc=gb&lang=en&#