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Crime Prevention Policy - JURD7503

Faculty: Faculty of Law

School: Faculty of Law

Course Outline: See below

Campus: Sydney

Career: Postgraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2

Enrolment Requirements:

Pre-requisites: Crime & the Criminal Process (LAWS1021/JURD7121) and Criminal Laws (LAWS1022/JURD7122) OR Criminal Law 1 (LAWS1001/JURD7101) and Criminal Law 2 (LAWS1011/JURD7111).

Excluded: CRIM3011, LAWS8103

CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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Description

Crime Prevention policy is a criminological course which aims to introduce students to central concepts and issues in the emerging crime prevention literature and practice. The course is socio-legal in orientation, although there is scope for discussion of legal regimes in relation to specific topics. The knowledge of theoretical and practical developments will be applied to specific local contexts and the major Research Assignment is directed to this end. The course introduces students to theories and practices of crime prevention and should be of particular interest to people wishing to develop greater knowledge of criminology and criminal justice.

Main topics:

  • Space, geography and the city
  • The emergence of fear of crime as a criminological object
  • The rise of risk, marketing and technology
  • Different theories of and approaches to crime prevention
  • Crime prevention in rural areas and or Aboriginal communities
  • Local government and crime prevention plans
  • The politics of crime prevention


Recommended Prior Knowledge

It is recommended that students take this course after Criminal Laws or the equivalent.

Course Aims

There have been considerable developments in the field of crime prevention policy in recent years as the limitations of over-reliance on the criminal justice agencies become apparent. A renewed interest in the concepts of space and locality have led to the development of situational and social crime prevention in the USA, UK and western European countries, and to a lesser but increasing extent, Australia. Previous criminological work in an ecological tradition has been revived. Links are being forged across traditional disciplinary boundaries, for example geography, urban sociology, town planning and criminology. A primary objective of this course is to examine these developments.

A subsidiary objective is to foster a range of approaches to socio-legal scholarship. There will be a strong emphasis on inter-disciplinary approaches. Students will be required to complete a piece of applied research, a Crime Prevention Assessment of a particular site.

Learning Outcomes

At the conclusion of this course, students should be able to:
  1. Critically examine approaches to crime prevention
  2. Employ various theoretical approaches to analysing crime prevention
  3. Apply knowledge and theory about crime prevention to contemporary crime problems
  4. Prepare a crime prevention assessment of a particular site
  5. Undertake research based on inter-disciplinary sources
  6. Demonstrate effective written communication skills by articulating crime prevention concepts clearly, persuasively and appropriately;
  7. Demonstrate effective oral communication skills by discussing and debating course concepts in a scholarly, reflective and respectful manner

Assessment

Class Participation 20%
Short Essay 25%
Major Essay 55%

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Study Levels

Undergraduate Study Postgraudate Study Postgraduate Research Study Non-Award Study

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