Security And Human Rights

Specific objectives of the course are:
a. To familiarize students with the concept, the theory and the conditions of security, as a basic parameter of modern social relations, to understand and be able to critically approach the dimensions and the relativity of its protection.
b. To introduce students to human rights issues, both in terms of their meaning and institutional protection as a pillar of the relations between the state and the citizen, as a real problem that arises
in the daily practice of this relationship with the police role and activity as a characteristic example.
c. To focus on the relationship between policing standards, their integration into the Greek police system and their implications for the
consolidation of security and respect for human rights.                                                                                                                                                            d. To provide basic knowledge for the systematic study of human rights violations within the state repression system, not only as individual behaviors but as a structural problem inherent in the (dis-)functions of the enforcement of state authority, especially by the police; the organization of the police, the education of police staff, the institutional framework of policing, the professional working mentality, cultural and psychological factors and the investigation rules and procedures and the sanctions system for human rights violations will be addressed from a critical perspective.