Specialised Course in Citizen Security

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Specialised Course in Citizen Security

Type: Virtual

Language: Spanish

Level Education: Undergraduate/Graduate

Duration: 13 weeks

Presentation

The democratic construction of security, on the basis of the tenets of human security, is focused on protection of the individual in all aspects of life and simultaneously seeks to strengthen the capacity of individuals as agents of their own security. In this context, citizen security should be understood as the creation of conditions that allow personal, family, and social development of citizens in an environment of peace and democracy. Reaching this ideal of citizen security requires broad-based and committed consensus of all actors involved in the formulation of public policies, promoting the creation of decentralized community spaces that encourage citizen participation in the identification of threats and the measures necessary to face them effectively, efficiently, and in a politically sustainable manner.

This course was organized and offered in association with the University Oberta in Catalonia and has qualified 75 strategic actors associated with the PNUD offices and their counterparts in the region with the objective of impacting and formulating public policies in the matter of civic safety and includes perspectives of Human Development.

This course has been run twice, a total of 65 strategic actors have been trained.

Course Structure

The course is structured to be completed in 16 months and this includes 10 subject topics and 2 weeks for course introduction and closing. The introduction includes a course summary, and the closing unit invites participants to assess the course according to the below structure:

Unit 0	Introduction to the Virtual School System, the course and its context: Presentation and introduction to the School, course and classmates Understanding and using the virtual classroom Understanding and organization of learning resources
Unit 1	Social and Citizen Insecurity Globalization and insecurity Objective and subjective insecurity
Unit 2	Security, Territory, and Population The real risk of victimization The perceived risk of victimization The demand for security: police services, public policies on security
Unit 3	Security indicators Police and judicial statistics Victimization surveys Self-incrimination surveys
Unit 4	Actors in citizen security Map of strategic actors The relationship amongst citizen security actors’ Mass media and security: the influence of the media, in particular violence on television, delinquency and security agenda
Unit 5	Public policies on citizen security From criminal policies to security policies National security vs. Citizen Security
Unit 6	The process of ensuring security Insecurity and demand for punitive measures Conversion of conflict into security issues Criminal to security policies
Unit 7	Strategies to prevent violence and delinquency Social prevention Community prevention Situational prevention
Unit 8	Privatization of Security Trends in private security The interaction between the state, police forces and private security
Unit 9	Urbanism, quality of life and security The impact of citizen insecurity within an urban environment
Unit 10	The police in contemporary society The transnationalization of police action: state, borders and police, formal and informal cooperation Decentralization of police organization (lack of interest in petty crime, police self-autonomy and local police) The impact of new technologies on the police: the information revolution, the telephone and cars
Closing Unit	Evaluation