Jul 08, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
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T3 4955 - Police Legitimacy and Community Engagement
This interdisciplinary course uses psychological theory and evidence-based practices to demonstrate actionable plans to enhance police legitimacy and community relations. This course integrates concepts from psychology, criminal justice, and organizational communication to provide students a well-rounded view of how of an informed citizenry interacts with law enforcement agencies. Students learn how aspects of social justice theory, organizational communication, and criminal justice are interrelated, and they synthesize and apply these ideas to become a more informed and engaged citizen. Students gain understanding of the challenges of modern policing, analyze historic and current challenges to police legitimacy, as well as the vital role that community involvement can play in developing policy and best practices. By creating policy memos and action plans based on knowledge attained through their studies, students develop skills to evaluate current policing tactics and methods, and the role that an engaged community plays in police legitimacy.
Requisites: PSY 1010 and Sr
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS Capstone: Capstone or Culminating Experience
General Education Code (students who entered prior to Fall 2021-22): 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- At the completion of this course, students will be able to define and recognize indicators of police legitimacy within a community enhancing their abilities to function more effectively within their community.
- Students will be able to explain the impact of police legitimacy on police and citizen encounters in an increasingly diverse society.
- Students will be able to compare and contrast the guardian and warrior policing models.
- Students will be able to recognize implicit bias and explain its impact on police legitimacy.
- Students will be able to analyze community policing strategies through civic engagement and function as a collaborative partner to ensure social justice.
- Students will be able to evaluate legitimate use of police deadly force and the role of citizens in reviewing use-of-force incidents within a community.
- Students will be able to evaluate effective criminal justice recruitment and selection procedures to conclude how communities hire qualified candidates who reflect the demographic composition of their communities.
- Students will be able to differentiate theories of social psychology to include distributive, retributive and procedural justice acquiring increasingly complex intellectual skills.
- Students will be able to interpret police and citizen interactions using transactional justice theory.
- Students will be able to demonstrate integrative learning and a developing sense of self as an engaged citizen through interactions with a selected community public safety organization.
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