📖Program Curriculum
Year 1
Core Modules
Credits
Forms of Rural and Environmental Crime
20.00
You’ll examine the range and extent of crime occurring in the UK countryside. It has a focus on the challenge of defining ‘rural’ in a crime and policing context. You will explore the range and impacts of environmental crime the long-term consequences of this form of offending and the challenges associated with finding the proper responses.
Rural and Environmental Law
20.00
Explore and critique the law and regulatory instruments pertaining to rural and environmental crime. You’ll explore forms of environmental justice and consider which agencies are responsible for applying various laws and regulations and examine the concept of environmental democracy.
Rural & Environmental Crime: Enforcement Challenges & Response
20.00
You’ll explore the challenges posed in enforcing and complying with rural and environmental law and regulation. Evaluate innovative ways of responding to those challenges. You’ll draw upon contemporary change management strategies and nudge theory to explore ways of bringing a change in institutional and public attitudes toward rural offending.
Rural green and Environmental Criminologies
20.00
Rural green and environmental criminologies have become important in explaining crime events and for reducing victimisation. You’ll consider how rural green and conservation criminologies have evolved out of ‘traditional’ criminological approaches. You will explore how these might be used to understand why rural and environmental crimes occur.
Year 2
Core Modules
Credits
Policing research project
60.00
The research project is a major piece of self-managed work where you must identify your own research question set research objectives gather and analyse appropriate literature secondary and primary research to meet those objectives. You’ll have the opportunity to attend a campus-based workshop prior to commencing your dissertation where you’ll...
Optional Modules
Credits
Leading Managing and Developing Talent
20.00
Develop an understanding of the contribution that talent management can offer organisations. Explore the various notions of talent and the way it impacts on organisational strategy. Examine approaches to leadership management and development and explore themes such as managing values and culture staff engagement coaching and mentoring.
Strategic Leadership
20.00
Successfully embedding a sense of leadership can be the difference between success and failure. You’ll learn how to develop into a rational and motivational and resilient leader and strategic thinker who understands the inherent differences between the roles of a ‘manager’ and a ‘leader’ in rapidly changing international contexts.
Project Management
20.00
Organisational Resilience
20.00
