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Optional Module: Risk Assessment & Management
Module Description
This module aims to:
- Make students aware of the key definitions of risk
- Introduce students to a number of specific areas influenced by the concept of risk
- Ensure that students understand the wider implications of risk assessment on the criminal justice system
- Enable students to consider the implications of risk to specific fields within the CJ system
- Identify and critically evaluate the principle assessment tools used to identify risk
- Raise awareness of the growing problems caused by a risk‐averse society
Module Content
1. Risk and Society
2. Risk and Criminal Justice
3. Approaches to risk and risk assessment tools
4. Risk and the police
5. Risk and community policing
6. Risk and the courts
7. Risk and the penal system
8. Risk and probation
9. Risk and crime prevention
10. Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 – a new reality
Intended Learning Outcomes
On completion of this module, students will be able to:
- Understand the concept of risk
- Identify and critically evaluate the key assessment tools used to assess risk
- Identify and critically assess the key issues arising from risk aversion to a) policing; and b) the treatment of offenders
- Appreciate the social and economic consequences of crime policies based on risk aversion
- Understand the impact of the guilty verdict in the 2007 Health and Safety trial of the Metropolitan Police
