| dc.description.abstract | light of the need of building greater
trust and improving service delivery on the part of
criminal justice professionals, serious thought
needs to be put towards promoting and
developing empathetic responses of criminal
justice students during training and education.
The approaches towards training and education
of criminal justice professionals, must also be
adapted with an eye to their future conduct and
the complexities of social issues they will
encounter. It is argued that in order for future
criminal justice professionals trained at university
to provide a more empathetic and communityoriented
service, the arts and humanities must
play a vital supportive role. This paper is an
analytical review of current findings in
pedagogical research and practical
implementation, drawing also from the
comparative findings in medical humanities, with
a view to supporting the arguments for
integrating arts and humanities in the teaching
and learning of criminal justice. The
recommendations are to develop modules,
seminars, assignments and guidelines for teaching
methods into the criminal justice teaching
curriculum, and also to provide support for
additional academic and extracurricular
activities in the arts and humanities as a part of
the degree programme annual plan. The teaching
and activities must be student centered and
planned with their participation. Developing
creative and reflective practices, including
maintenance of reflective portfolios for
empathetic and critical thinking in the formation
of professional identity, is also recommended. | en_US |
