Criminology-Research Essay-Social Sciences Assignment

Internal Code- MAS5742 Social Sciences Assignment

1. ‘[T]he nature of police work makes it an extreme high-risk operation for misconduct [and] constant vigilance is required to protect democratic liberties and prevent police abusing their authority’ (Prenzler in Broadhurst & Davies 2009: 13). Critically discuss this statement.

2. What is meant by ‘proactive policing’? What potential opportunities and limits does proactive policing present for conceptualising the role of the police in contemporary society?

3. Describe and analyse the pluralisation of policing. How has this process shaped the role of the public police? You may focus your answer on Australia, the UK and/or the US.

4. Drawing on the concepts of racial profiling, racialisation and/or institutional racism, critically examine police practices and strategies that unfairly target particular groups in Australian society. You may choose to focus on one or more discriminatory police practices and strategies and/or one or more targeted communities.

5. Drawing on Chris Cunneen’s (2001) concept of overpolicing, examine the ways in which Indigenous people are policed differently to non-Indigenous people in Australia.

6. With reference to one form of transnational organised crime, critically discuss the key characteristics of transnational policing. How and why has policing adapted in response to global security or crime control issues?