The Philosophy of Community Policing

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ASSIGNMENT BRIEF AND GUIDANCE

Purpose of this assessment

The assignment is designed to test students understanding of how the different methods of recording crime can be developed and understand the work of public services and statutory obligations implemented to address crime. This assessment will further develop an understanding of the multi-agency approach to community safety and public service roles and responsibilities and how this developed to analyse the effectiveness of crime reduction strategies on a national and local level.

Scenario

Prieto, Curiel and Bishop (2017) argues that fear of crime is perpetuated by the opinion of others, and often does not reflect the actual number of crimes in society. In fact, it takes only a small amount of crime to create a generalised fear in the population, and crime rates need to decrease considerably to improve the average perception that a region is secure. These findings come from a study explaining how a generalised fear of crime exists in countries and cities where the crime rates are low.

As a Special Constable for the Metropolitan Police Service, explore this disparity between actual crime and fear of crime by drawing on the significance of philosophy of community policing,

Reference:

Prieto Curiel R, Bishop S. (2017) Modelling the fear of crime. Proc. R. Soc. A, 473: 20170156. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2017.0156

Task 1

Write a report that explores the notion that the reality of crime prevalence is not reflected in the publics fear of crime.

The report should have 3 sections:

Section 1: Recording Crime (500 words max)

• Explain two approaches that are used for recording crimes: police record crimes and Crime Survey for England & Wales (CSEW). Also, explore how they are different from each other.
• Analyse strengths and weaknesses of using police recorded crime and CSEW to measure crime rates accurately.

Section 2: The Philosophy of Community Policing (1,000 words max)

• Analyse how crime can affect victims and communities, considering both short term and long term impacts.
• Explain the impact of news media on communities perceptions of crime and how creates the fear of crime which is not real.
• Explain the philosophy of community policing and associated legislation
• Evaluate the impact of multi-agency policing since the 1997 New Labour government

Section 3: Effectiveness of Crime Reduction Strategies (600 words max)

• Investigate one local and one national crime reduction strategy and evaluate their effectiveness in increasing community safety and/or fear of crime.

This provides evidence for ALL learning outcomes.

Word count: 2,500 (+ / 10%)

Submission Format

This report should be submitted by 15 April 2024. It should be written using 1.5 line spacing and font size 12.

You are required to introduce your Report as well as provide a conclusion. All work must be supported with research and referenced using the Harvard referencing system. Use appropriate case studies, organisational examples and academic theory to support your findings.

You should submit your assignment to the relevant Report submission point on Moodle.

Your Moodle has a very useful section on Reports and how to write them. You can locate this in your study skills tile, under Academic Genres. Link: https://moodle.dghe.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=608

Formative Task

You have an opportunity to receive some formative feedback on this report by submitting a 1,000 word draft to the relevant Formative task submission point on Moodle by 19 February 2024. This task will not be graded but will contain useful feedback.

The current Assignment Brief covers the following Learning Outcomes

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