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Delivery mode: Individualized study or grouped study.
Credits: 3 - Applied Studies.
Prerequisite: None.
Centre: Centre for State and Legal Studies
CRJS 410 has a Challenge for Credit option.
Course website
CRJS 410 aims to provide students with a broad understanding of the policing needs within a community, the diversity within a community, and how needs change over time.
By examining various special needs groups, students will see that as the dynamics of a community change, so does the way in which it is policed. Identification of some target groups in many Canadian jurisdictions who may be defined as special needs will be focused upon: Aboriginal people, gay and lesbian people, children, battered women, the elderly, immigrants, and the physically challenged. This list is far from exhaustive, and the course allows students to leave these prescribed boundaries to examine other interest groups.
Initially, the course will look at the history of the police in Canada and the evolution of various policing roles.
Later, students will be asked to examine the movement of certain sociological issues which involve the police force, while always considering the question: Who are the groups, or perhaps even the individuals, in our society who have special needs which must be taken into account by police?
CRJS 410 is divided into ten units as follows:
Unit 1: History of Policing
Unit 2: Types of Policing in Canada
Unit 3: Identification of Special Needs in Policing
Unit 4: Aboriginal Peoples
Unit 5: The Elderly
Unit 6: Women
Unit 7: People with Disabilities
Unit 8: Children
Unit 9: Homosexuals, Bisexuals, and Transgendered People
Unit 10: Ethnic, Religious, and Cultural Minorities
To receive credit for CRJS 410, you must achieve an average mark of 50 percent on the course assignments, a mark of at least 50 percent on the final examination, and a course composite grade of at least "D" 50 percent. The weighting of the composite grade is as follows:
Assign 1 | Assign 2 | Assign 3 | Assign 4 | Final Exam | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
10% | 20% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 100% |
To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University's online Calendar.
Stansfield, R. T. 1996. Issues in Policing: A Canadian Perspective. Toronto: Educational Publishing, Inc.
The course materials also include a study guide, student manual and reading file.