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Optional Module: Risk Assessment & Management

Introduction

Introduce the concept of risk and applies this to understanding the wider implications of risk assessment on the criminal justice system. This will include offender management with an emphasis on sexual and violent offenders, multi-agency protection panels and will consider whether punishment should ‘fit the crime’.

Module Description

This module aims to:

1. Make students aware of the key definitions of risk
2. Introduce students to a number of specific areas influenced by the concept of risk
3. Ensure that students understand the wider implications of risk assessment on the criminal justice system
4. Enable students to consider the implications of risk to specific fields within the CJ system
5. Identify and critically evaluate the principle assessment tools used to identify risk
6. Raise awareness of the growing problems caused by a risk‐averse society

Module Content

• Risk and Society
• Risk and Criminal Justice
• Approaches to risk and risk assessment tools
• Risk and the police
• Risk and community policing
• Risk and the courts
• Risk and the penal system
• Risk and probation
• Risk and crime prevention
• Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 – a new reality

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