In this course, you’ll explore the way suspects are dealt with during a police investigation and learn about how psychology can help the police with their enquiries.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
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In this free course, Forensic psychology, you will discover how psychology can help obtain evidence from eyewitnesses in police investigations and prevent miscarriages of justice.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
Dionysia Lali looks at developing evidence-based practice to support witnesses on the autistic spectrum when they give evidence to the police.
Category: Psychology
Open University cognitive psychologist Graham Pike describes how his interest in facial compositing has led to a collaboration resulting in a computer based tool, called Efit V. This tool might transform the process of identifying police suspects. It is being developed to allow law enforcement agencies to produce images of criminal suspects at very short notice at crime scenes revolutionising the process of identification. To find out more, follow the research links.
Category: Psychology
Does the perception of women who kill as acting against the typical behaviour of their gender mean we try to find reasons why they're not 'proper' women?
Category: Psychology
Paul Britton, the man known as 'The Real Cracker', is perhaps the UK's leading psychological profiler. He has helped police solve some of the country's most shocking crimes. How did he get started?
Category: Psychology
Earlier today, the House of Commons heard a ten-minute rule bill presented by Nusrat Ghani to tackle so-called honour killings. The police have said that it will take community action to eradicate the crime. But communities still need to be supported by the legal system, argues Dr Hannana Siddiqui.
Category: Social Care & Social Work
Rod Earle, OU academic lead for youth justice, looks at why American 'supercop' Bill Bratton has been flown into the UK to help the Government tackle gang crime in the wake of the summer riots.
Category: Childhood & Youth
There is still much work to do to address institutional, structural and systemic racism directly. What is being done now? What can be done moving forward?
Are racist actions by a police officer individual misconduct or a systemic failure? This article explores perspectives on organisational culture and individual action.
How is racism, bias and discrimination being tackled in policing? This article explores responses and approaches to these issues by police forces, the community, and at governmental levels.
What is Critical Race Theory and how could it be used to change structures and processes that sustain institutional and individual racism?
Looking at institutional racism, this article explores how this affects the criminal justice system and policing.
How does policing in the US and the UK operate and how does this feed into debates around policing and racism?
This collection provides overview and historical context of (some of) the differences and similarities in policing in the USA and UK, particularly those related to race and systemic and institutional racism, and what’s being done about racism in the police.
This course is designed to stimulate informed debate about the role of Islam in western societies. Issues explored include the diversity of western Muslim populations and leaders; the role of the media; Muslim education and social and political engagement; and the politics of multiculturalism. Controversial Muslim intellectual, Tariq Ramadan provides a challenging insider’s perspective on the issues discussed, plus other interviews with authors, critics and Muslim community leaders. The course will be of particular relevance to teachers, social workers, police and health professionals. This material is taken from The Open University Course AD252 Islam in the West: the Politics of Co-existence.
Category: History & The Arts
Thirty years after the centre of Liverpool was the site of sustained rioting, a new book explores the causes, and finds out what happened next. Laurie Taylor talks to the authors.
Category: History
A new set of guidelines offers law enforcement officers ways to ensure language skills aren't a bar to understanding your rights when arrested.
Category: Linguistics
How does the law stand in relation to web privacy? Do we have the same rights online as we do in life? The online revolution has moved rapidly but has the law managed to keep up with it and what has been the impact on our legal rights? These two films touch upon issues that have emerged as a result of a growing online community like the complications that arise when attempting to reconcile how various countries use different laws to police an individual’s omnipresent profile on the net. It also explores who owns the information we publish when we create an online account.
This material forms part of the Open University course TU100 My digital life.
This material forms part of the Open University course TU100 My digital life.
Category: Science, Maths & Technology
Gait recognition is still a long way off identifying individual criminals, as Ray Corrigan explains
Category: Engineering & Technology