Digital Courses
Trends in the Governance of Security
Trends in the Governance of Security is the first of a series of digital courses which aim is to support and enhance the the quality of teaching on security and justice within African tertiary learning institutions. The aim is to develop and share digital materials that will bring key scholars in Africa and the world directly into African classrooms. Through the development of these courses it is intended to provide support to African learning institutions engaged in capacity development for scholars, policy analysts and practitioners. This first digital course is now ready for distribution in Africa through DVD's and web-based courses.
This course examines trends in governance through the window of security. It explores what general developments within governance can tell us about policing and what policing can tell us about these broader developments.
The course encourages students to:
- engage with theoretical, descriptive and policy materials,
- develop an understanding of developments in security governance, and
- apply this understanding to develop policy and practice.
The course explores many facets of security today including state and community policing, nodal security governance and the pluralisation of policing structures. The course is introduced and discussed by Clifford Shearing.
Course Outline
Seminar 1.
'What is policing?'
with Michael Kempa
Seminar 2.
‘The private security industry'
with Julie Berg & Christine Hentschel
Seminar 3.
‘Popular policing'
with Irvin Kinnes & John Cartwright
Seminar 4.
‘Collaborative policing'
with Jennifer Wood & Peter Grabosky
Seminar 5.
'What forms has policing taken?'
with Elrena van der Spuy & Karina Landman
Seminar 6.
‘Bringing the state back in'
with Ian Loader & Les Johnston
Seminar 7.
‘European policing'
with Benoit Dupont & Maurice Punch
Seminar 8.
‘African policing'
with Bruce Baker & Etannibi Alemika
Seminar 9.
‘Policing accountability'
with Philip Stenning & Sean Tait
Seminar 10.
‘The future of policing'
with Scott Burris
Seminar 11. Extras include:
John Braithwaite: restorative Justice
Thomas Feltes: German policing
Tony Samara: Pluralisation of policing
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Suggestions for use:
The course is designed to be presented by a course facilitator within a class room setting where students can engage directly with the materials presented and with each other.
Reading materials provided on Disc 12 can be used for supplementary study.
Assignments
are to be set by the course facilitators in a manner that complies with degree requirements at their universities.Credits:
Production Team:
Alenka Obal
Adam Armstrong
Clifford Shearing
Elaine Atkins
Julie Berg
Justine Krige
Tom Herbstein
Technical assistance and editing:
Amy Daneel
Shihaam Donnelly
Funding:
The South African National Research Foundation (NRF) Chair of Security and Justice -- a South Africa Research Chairs Initiative of the Department of Science and Technology and the National Research Foundation -- hosted by the Law Faculty at the University of Cape Town is the principal funder of the Learning Across Borders series. Funding for the Trends in the Governance of Security course was also provided by the Centre for Educational Technology at the University of Cape Town.
"Policing (all over) the World" is an e-learning project initiated by the Chair of Criminology at Ruhr-University Bochum and the Centre of Criminology at Cape Town University South Africa. The program is based on an internet platform that contains interdisciplinary video lectures from police research and police science. The contributions are made by experienced police scientists and experts in English language. The use of modern e-learning methods enables students to study this research field exceeding their regular lectures. In addition it is possible to use the material in the framework of distance-learning programs. The contributions are interdisciplinary and the authors originate not only from criminology and police science but also from such fields as law, social science, philosophy or psychology. Learning contents refer to police procedures and the understanding of police work in different cultures and societies. Other learning point comprise work procedures, structure and forms of training and education of state and private security agencies as well as the comparison of juridical systems and philosophies regarding police work. Thomas Feltes of Bochum University lead the development of the project.
Contact persons: Martina Schreiber, Diana Ziegleder or Elaine.Atkins@uct.ac.za.