1.Evaluate and critique the benefits of using evidenced based research into policing and police initiatives in order to inform policing policy, practice and accountability.
2.Critically analyse and evaluate research led policing and research led initiatives.
3.Critically assess the importance and relevance of police information and management systems in the capturing of data to aid evidenced based research and decision making.

Assessment 1 requires LO’s 1 and 2 to be addressed.

Students will be required to produce an individual/group presentation, which requires students to identify an issue in the workplace (case study) seek out what the evidence says in relation to that issue and then demonstrate how it can/will be used to influence the development of a suitable response.

Assessment 2 requires LO’s 2 and 3 to be addressed.

Students will produce an individual written essay based upon the case study (coursework 1) containing an informed analysis and discussion of the selected case study. Students will be expected to consult the research literature in order to extend their understanding of the module`s content, and to apply appropriate theoretical perspectives and research findings to an in-depth critical evaluation, together with recommendations as to response.

Promoting innovation and experiments in policing: what works?
Leading leaders of police experiments
Advancing police experiments and evidenced-based policing
Advancing police information and management systems – the use of technology
Research methodology, evaluation frameworks and research practice
Turning evidenced based research into evidenced based policy and practice
Internal consultancy skills to create opportunities for change
Learning from experience and practice
Critiquing and reviewing research and experiments.
Applying criminological/social science theory to policing practice.
Policing experiments – reviewing the boundaries and constraints
Applying management theory to policing practice
Critically analyse and evaluate research led policing
Critically analyse and evaluating research led initiatives
Links to policing strategies – including compstat, problem-oriented policing and intelligence led policing.
Assessing the importance of monitoring and evaluation within the practice of policing.
Assessing evidence quality Promoting innovation and experiments in policing: what works?
Leading leaders of police experiments
Advancing police experiments and evidenced-based policing
Advancing police information and management systems – the use of technology
Research methodology, evaluation frameworks and research practice
Turning evidenced based research into evidenced based policy and practice
Internal consultancy skills to create opportunities for change
Learning from experience and practice
Critiquing and reviewing research and experiments.
Applying criminological/social science theory to policing practice.
Policing experiments – reviewing the boundaries and constraints
Applying management theory to policing practice
Critically analyse and evaluate research led policing
Critically analyse and evaluating research led initiatives
Links to policing strategies – including compstat, problem-oriented policing and intelligence led policing.
Assessing the importance of monitoring and evaluation within the practice of policing.
Assessing evidence quality

This module provides an opportunity to examine police and crime reduction led research and initiatives and to evaluate their findings. Increasingly public services, including the police and their partners, are being called to account for their utilisation of resources and the critical importance that research, monitoring and evaluation frameworks can have to operational decision making will be explored in depth, including how to commission research.
Understanding how evidenced based practice can, improve efficiency and effectiveness and positively influence structural and cultural change will also enhance personal and professional development

The module is delivered by way of online lectures (synchronous and asynchronous), which provides students with a comprehensive grounding in Evidenced Based Policing, contextual problem solving and crime reduction led research and initiatives.
Detailed pre-reading will be required before taught sessions, and students will be supervised as they seek to develop ideas for their Independent Studies
tudents will gain formative feedback by a series of groups tasks that will be administered within the seminars.
Candidates will receive tuition on referencing technique in the social sciences, guidance on the avoidance of plagiarism, and all submitted coursework by MSc candidates will be expected to systematically follow the Harvard referencing system

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