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Public Security Theory and Policy
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:10.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:29:09
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | JF_362 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Law; Theory and History of Rights | Target Audience: | Person and Property Defence | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Andrejs Vilks | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 12 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 24 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 4 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 8 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 32 | ||||||||
| Part-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 4 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 8 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 2 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 4 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 12 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Political Science, Criminology. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To learn the basics of ensuring public security, to identify the most important public security theories and to promote understanding of their implementation in public administration and in the process of political planning. Tasks: to study the terminology of the study course; to develop an understanding of public security theories; to identify the applicability of public security theories in public administration and in the process of political planning. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | The Concept and Essence of Public Security. The Essence of Politics and Political Planning. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Public Security Risks and Threats. Identification of Threats to Public Security. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | General Description of Public Security Theories. Social Contract Theory in Ensuring Public Security. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Public Choice Theory and Public Security. Public and National Security. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | The System of Ensuring Public Security. Institutional Framework of Public Security. Regulatory Framework of Ensuring Public Security. | Lectures | 3.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 6 | Practical Ensuring of Public Security and Related Experience. Foreign Experience in Ensuring Public Security. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 7 | Directions for Modernisation of Ensuring Public Security. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Topic Layout (Part-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | The Concept and Essence of Public Security. The Essence of Politics and Political Planning. | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Public Security Risks and Threats. Identification of Threats to Public Security. | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | General Description of Public Security Theories. Social Contract Theory in Ensuring Public Security. | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Public Choice Theory and Public Security. Public and National Security. | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | The System of Ensuring Public Security. Institutional Framework of Public Security. Regulatory Framework of Ensuring Public Security. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 6 | Practical Ensuring of Public Security and Related Experience. Foreign Experience in Ensuring Public Security. | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 7 | Directions for Modernisation of Ensuring Public Security. | Lectures | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Written assignments, analysis of literature, collection of information on the Internet, situation analysis. In order to evaluate the quality of the study course as a whole, the student must fill out the study course evaluation questionnaire on the Student Portal. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Routine tests are passed (50%); exam (50%). | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Students acquire knowledge about the subject of logic, certain semantic categories (terminology, statements, operators), deductive and inductive conclusions, the structure of the argumentation process, and the diversity of logical laws. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Ability to solve logical tasks with terms and statements; to apply the rules of logic for the recognition of deductive conclusions; to quickly find arguments for the thesis to be substantiated, solutions, and present it. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Understanding of the laws of logic, ability to form arguments and conclusions, ability to distinguish the semantic categories of logic in legal texts. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Latvijas ārējā un drošības politika. Gadagrāmata (2023). Latvijas Ārpolitikas institūts. | ||||||||
| 2 | ANO Vispārējā cilvēktiesību deklarācija. | ||||||||
| 3 | 15.02.1922. likums "Latvijas Republikas Satversme" ("LV", 43, 01.07.1993.) [stājas spēkā 07.11.1922.] | ||||||||
| 4 | Nacionālās drošības likums// | ||||||||
| 5 | https://likumi.lv/doc.php?id=14011 | ||||||||
| 6 | Nacionālās drošības koncepcija. | ||||||||
| 7 | http://www.mfa.gov.lv/arpolitika/drosibas-politika/pamatdok… | ||||||||
| 8 | Par Nacionālās drošības koncepcijas apstiprināšanu/ | ||||||||
| 9 | /https://likumi.lv/doc.php?id=227460 | ||||||||
| 10 | Valsts drošības iestāžu likums. | ||||||||
| 11 | https://likumi.lv/doc.php?id=57256 | ||||||||
| 12 | Publisku izklaides un svētku pasākumu drošības likums// | ||||||||
| 13 | https://likumi.lv/doc.php?id=111963 | ||||||||
| 14 | Par Militāro draudu analīzi. Ministru kabineta rīkojums Nr.418. 2005.gada 30. Jūnijā | ||||||||
| 15 | Krīzes vadības padomes nolikums. Ministru kabineta noteikumi Nr. 42. 2001. gada 18. janvāris// | ||||||||
| 16 | https://likumi.lv/ta/id/224553-krizes-vadibas-padomes-nolik…. | ||||||||
| 17 | Nacionālajai drošībai svarīgu objektu drošības pasākumu plānošanas un īstenošanas kārtība. Ministru kabineta noteikumi Nr. 428. 2008. Gada 10. Jūnijs// | ||||||||
| 18 | https://likumi.lv/ta/id/177273-nacionalajai-drosibai-svarig…. | ||||||||
| 19 | Kritiskās infrastruktūras, tajā skaitā Eiropas kritiskās infrastruktūras, apzināšanas un drošības pasākumu plānošanas un īstenošanas kārtība. Ministru kabineta noteikumi Nr. 496. 2010. gada 1.jūnijs.// | ||||||||
| 20 | https://likumi.lv/ta/id/212031-kritiskas-infrastrukturas-ta…... | ||||||||
| 21 | Cilvēkdrošība Latvijā un pasaulē: no idejas līdz praksei. Rakstu krājums Žanetes Ozoliņas redakcījā. Rīga, Zinātne, 2012. | ||||||||
| 22 | Cilvēkdrošiba Latvijā: lokālie, nacionālie un starptautiskie izaicinājumi. Kongresa materiāli. Rīga, 2011. gada 24. – 27. oktobrī.// | ||||||||
| 23 | http://www.nacionalaidentitate.lv/wp-content/uploads/2012/0… | ||||||||
| 24 | Cilvēkdrošibas defnīcijas un dimensijas. | ||||||||
| 25 | Skatīt: http://www.un.lv/files/2001/1nod.pdf | ||||||||
| 26 | Jundzis T. Drošības apdraudējumi un riski nākotnē // Latvija Eiropā: nākotnes vīzijas. R., 2004 | ||||||||
| 27 | A SECURE EUROPE IN A BETTER WORLD - THE EUROPEAN SECURITY STRATEGY.Approved by the European Council held in Brussels on 12 December 2003 and drafted under the responsibilities of the EU High Representative JAVIER SOLANA - http://www.consilium.europa.eu/cms3_fo/showPage.asp?id=266&… | ||||||||
| 28 | The Union has decided to develop the civilian aspects of crisis management in four priority areas defined by the Feira European Council in June 2000: police, strengthening of the rule of law, strengthening civilian administration and civil protection. http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cmsUpload/Background_… | ||||||||
| 29 | Žanete Ozoliņa, Ivars Dukāts „Indivīda drošība globalizācijas un reģionalizācijas procesu kontekstā”. Rīga: UNDP. 2002. http://www.un.lv/files/2001/Ozolina.pdf | ||||||||
| 30 | Викторов А.Ш. Введение в социологию Безопасности. Москва. Канон, 2008 | ||||||||
| 31 | U.Krastiņš. Krimināltiesību teorija un ;prakse. Viedokļi. Problēmas. Risinājumi. 2015. – 2017. Rīga, Tiesu namu aģentūra, 2018. | ||||||||
| 32 | V.Zahars ‘’Kriminālpolitika: mūsdienu tendences un procesi’’. Daugavpils, Saule, 2018, 145 lpp | ||||||||
| 33 | Krīze kā Eiropas Savienības liktenis (2021). Latvijas Ārpolitikas institūts .Pieejams: | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Additional pedagogical guidance for lecturers is provided in the E4J Teaching Guide on Organized Crime. Avaible at: http://www.unodc.org/e4j/en/tertiary/organized-crime.html | ||||||||
| 2 | NATO 2022 STRATEGIC CONCEPT (NATO stratēģiskā koncepcija) , (2020). | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | Administratīvā un kriminālā justīcija | ||||||||
| 2 | Safetu Research | ||||||||
| 3 | // http://ac.els-cdn.com/S0022437515000286/1-s2.0-S00224375150… | ||||||||
