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2021/2022

Social Research Techniques

Code: 104014 ECTS Credits: 6
Degree Type Year Semester
2502501 Prevention and Integral Safety and Security OB 3 2
The proposed teaching and assessment methodology that appear in the guide may be subject to changes as a result of the restrictions to face-to-face class attendance imposed by the health authorities.

Contact

Name:
Joan Rodríguez Serrano
Email:
Joan.Rodriguez.Serrano@uab.cat

Use of Languages

Principal working language:
spanish (spa)
Some groups entirely in English:
No
Some groups entirely in Catalan:
No
Some groups entirely in Spanish:
Yes

Teachers

Jose Antonio Lozano Morcillo

Prerequisites

This subject does not have prerequisites

Objectives and Contextualisation

Training objectives

The aim of the subject is to provide the student with the basic knowledge about the Private Detective figure and the functioning of the Judicial Police. (Regulation, powers, administrative organization, areas of action and performance of their functions)

 
 

Competences

  • Assume the social, ethical and professional responsibility that derives from professional practice.
  • Be able to adapt to unexpected situations.
  • Carry out analyses of preventative measures in the area of security.
  • Generate innovative and competitive proposals in research and in professional activity developing curiosity and creativity.
  • Have a general understanding of basic knowledge in the area of prevention and integral safety and security.
  • Identify the resources necessary to respond to management needs for prevention and integral security.
  • Identify, manage and resolve conflicts.
  • Know how to communicate and transmit ideas and result efficiently in a professional and non-expert environment, both orally and in writing.
  • Make efficient use of ITC in the communication and transmission of results.
  • Respond to problems applying knowledge to practice.
  • Show respect for diversity and the plurality of ideas, people and situations.
  • Use the capacity for analysis and synthesis to solve problems.
  • Work in institutional and interprofessional networks.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Analyse the preventative interventions in matters of security, environment, quality and social corporate responsibility and identify the inherent risk factors.
  2. Assume the social, ethical and professional responsibility that derives from professional practice.
  3. Be able to adapt to unexpected situations.
  4. Draw up management proposals for prevention and security in an organisation.
  5. Generate innovative and competitive proposals in research and in professional activity developing curiosity and creativity.
  6. Identify the infrastructure, technology and resources necessary to respond to operations in prevention and integral security.
  7. Identify the resources necessary for managing security, the environment, quality and social corporate responsibility.
  8. Identify, manage and resolve conflicts.
  9. Know how to communicate and transmit ideas and result efficiently in a professional and non-expert environment, both orally and in writing.
  10. Make efficient use of ITC in the communication and transmission of results.
  11. Respond to problems applying knowledge to practice.
  12. Show respect for diversity and the plurality of ideas, people and situations.
  13. Use the capacity for analysis and synthesis to solve problems.
  14. Work in institutional and interprofessional networks.

Content

PRESENTATION

This subject arises from the need for the student of the Degree in Prevention and Security to have a first approach to the world of research, both in the private sphere, reserved for Private Detectives, as well as in the public sphere, which is carried out by the Police.

Societies with advanced socio-economic systems are characterized by a continuous interrelation between their members; sometimes they generate conflicts both in the field of interpersonal relationships and in the economic, labour, corporate, etc.

The resolution of these conflicts that, in their great majority, have a private nature (they are outside the Criminal scope) require the contribution of information and evidence to document approaches in the civil, labour, mercantile, family law jurisdictions; or, at least, to have simply the certainty of the reality of some facts, without any judicial transcendence.

In the State of Spain, as in most Western countries, the practice of obtaining information and evidence relating to private acts or behaviours is defined and regulated, attributing to the Private Detectives, constituted in Detective Dispatches, the aforementioned faculties in an exclusive way.

The explanation of the social work of the Private Detectives and their framework of action is the subject of the subject in which we will answer questions such as the D.P., how they are organized, what services they provide and how they develop their professional work.

In the field of Public Research, we will know how a research unit works and how it is organized according to certain offenses established in the Criminal Code.

Methodology

The subject is divided into two blocks. In the first block the principles of private investigation will be explained, in the second block the tools used in the field of judicial police will be analyzed, as well as its concept.
To each of the blocks the teachers will present the theoretical part and will encourage the debate on the proposed topics through the different forums.
At the same time, the student will have to elaborate the PEC’s of the subject
It is important to mention that the main objective of the video classes is to resolve doubts regarding the syllabus, therefore, it is essential to prepare the topics before each session

Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.

Activities

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Evaluation 4 0.16 3, 2, 9, 11, 4, 1, 10, 5, 7, 6, 8, 12, 14, 13
Video Class 12 0.48 1, 10, 7, 6, 8, 12, 14, 13
Type: Supervised      
Tutorials to support the realization of practical and theoretical work 24 0.96 2, 9, 11, 1, 10, 5, 7, 6, 8, 12, 14
Type: Autonomous      
Personal study, reading articles and preparing class work 110 4.4 2, 11, 4, 1, 10, 7, 6, 8, 12, 13

Assessment

EVALUATION SYSTEM

The evaluation system will consist of the preparation of 4 PEC (Continuous Evaluation Tests) plus a final test of continuous evaluation on all the contents of the subject.

 The weight on the final note of each of the parties is as follows:

 PEC 1-2 Private investigation (30%).

PEC 3-4 Public research (30%).

Final Test (40%)

In order to pass the course, it is mandatory to take the final test, in order to complete the course.

 In case of not passing the subject according to the aforementioned criteria (continuous evaluation), a recovery test may be done on the date scheduled in the schedule, and it will cover the entire contents of the program.

 To participate in the recovery the students must have been previously evaluated in a set of activities, the weight of which equals a minimum of two thirds of the total grade of the subject. However, the qualification that will consist of the student's file is a maximum of 5-Approved.

 Students who need to change an evaluation date must submit the request by filling in the document that you will find in the Moodle space of Tutorial EPSI.

 Without prejudice to other disciplinary measures deemed appropriate, and in accordance with current academic regulations, "in the event that the student makes any irregularity that could lead to a significant variation in the grade of an evaluation act, it will be graded with a 0 This evaluation act, regardless of the disciplinary process that can be instructed In case of various irregularities occur in the evaluation acts of the same subject, the final grade of this subject will be 0 ".

 The tests / exams may be written and / or oral at the discretion of the teaching staff.

Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Exam 40% 0 0 2, 9, 11, 1, 7, 6, 8, 12, 13
PEC 1 - PEC 2 30% 0 0 3, 2, 9, 11, 10, 5, 6, 12, 14, 13
PEC 3 - PEC 4 30% 0 0 3, 2, 9, 11, 4, 10, 5, 7, 6, 8, 12, 14, 13

Bibliography

RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Private Investigation

• Law 5/2014, of April 4, on Private Security.

http://www.boe.es/diario_boe/txt.php?id=BOE-A-2014-3649

• Private Investigation Techniques Manual. Pedro P. Domínguez Prieto.

• Investigation of internal and external fraud in the corporate (insurers) and institutional sphere. José Manuel Ferro Veiga. Edit. University Club 2011

Public Research

Recommended bibliography:

• Sabaté Muñoz, Ll., Proof of evidence in the judicial process. Analysis for jurists, detectives, journalists, experts and police, ed. The Law, Madrid, 2016.

• Gimeno Sendra, V. and Marchal Escalona, A. N., Criminal Procedure Code for the judicial police, Editorial Aranzadi, Pamplona, 2016.

Reference rules:

•Spanish constitution

• Organic Law of the Judiciary 6/1985, of July 1

• Organic Law of security forces and bodies of the State 2/1986

• Criminal Procedure Law

• Royal Decree 769/87 on regulation of the judicial police

• Law 10/94, of July 11, of the police of the Generalitat- Mossos de Esquadra

• Law 19/91, of the local police

Software

This subject will use the basic software of the Office 365 package