Criminology and Critical Policing Studies

Criminology and Critical Policing Studies

7-9.30pm Thursdays 10, 17, 24 & 31 May and 7, 14, 21 & 28 June, 2018

Learning Centre at City Clean Depot, Upper Hollingdean Road, Brighton BN1 7GA

With Criminologist Peter Squires

The Police are the gatekeepers to the criminal justice system and capable of deploying fundamental power and authority: not least the power to criminalise. While the British policing system stresses ‘accountability‘, locality, minimum use of force and ‘consent’ in upholding law and order, controversial questions arise whenever these safeguards are tested. This module will critically, but constructively, explore the dilemmas arising in policing a democracy.