Project Rationale
This wiki serves as the hub for the International Responses to Crime Related Problems project 2024 that is being undertaken by criminology and criminal justice undergraduate students at Franklin University in the USA and the University Centre at Blackburn College in the UK.
The enhancement of knowledge and understanding of different countries' legal system, laws and police practices is the aim of this project. This will be achieved by using the theoretical background of comparative criminal justice/criminology to investigate two detailed case studies of international responses to crime related problems.
This project will provide all participants with an experience of international, collaborative research and scholarship. It needs your collaborative study with your academic counterparts from another country in the form of online lectures produced by the UK and USA Academic leads to inform levels of criminological knowledge and understandings. This collaboration will be evidenced by the posting of formal answers to the tasks on the individual pages of your team’s pbworks wiki and their spaces for less formal comments that help your team’s progress through the tasks. Your comments posted will allow the members of your team to communicate with each other as well as support each other completing each task. The Academic Lead will monitor all communications too and input when appropriate to further support this collaboration.
The views of all participants are extremely important so in addition to these methods of communication, a pre and post project survey will be completed to ascertain data and analyse.
How Do I Take Part?
The project takes the form of an online course and offers an innovative and unique opportunity to engage with colleagues and peers from across the Atlantic Ocean on issues and topics that are criminal justice specific but that span the globe in their impact. It is an ongoing assessment that is divided into four tasks and will create partnerships and inputs from universities at Franklin and Blackburn that create their own wikis to explore the topics in the project. The four tasks are part of an overall project. Further guidance and support will be provided on a weekly basis.
Therefore, you have all been allocated a place in a team for the project and these teams are required to build a wiki in a similar style to that of the project’s hub. The project teams published on the hub provides UK students with the allocation of what team they are in, and you will be emailed an invitation to join your team’s wiki. After accepting this invitation, you will have full editorial rights on that wiki. The Academic Lead (Phil Johnson) will inform you when the invitation has been posted and it is important that you have full access to your student email so that you can accept the invite, and read carefully the instructions on that email as it will detail what you need to do, and what you can do.
The project hub wiki is an open access resource and can be read anywhere but each team’s wiki is private and therefore only accessible by the students on that team and the academic staff leading the project. These staff members are: Dr. Chenelle Jones from Franklin and Phil Johnson from Blackburn. In the interests of data and privacy, the UK and USA Academic Leads will share information to UK and USA students through each team's wiki page to further support the completion of each task so it is important that you access your team's wiki page regularly.
Please now go to the Instructions page on the Navigator sidebar – this provides the essential information for the project's deadlines and formation of teams. If you have joined the project late or ever feel behind, please read the Directions page for the schedule of work.