Crime Prevention Policy - LAWS8103
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-requisite: Academic Program must be 9200 or 9210 or 9230 or 5740 or 9285 or 5285 or 9220 or 5750.
Excluded: CRIM3011, JURD7503
CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
Patrick Shepherdson has an extensive background as a crime prevention and community safety researcher and strategist. As the former Assistant Director, Crime Prevention Division, with (the former) NSW Attorney Generals Department, Patrick was responsible for the legislatively based NSW crime prevention planning and funding program. He established the statewide $1 million Aboriginal Community Patrols youth outreach program, managed a range of targeted social and situational crime prevention strategies and was also responsible for the Division’s crime prevention research and evaluation team.
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
LLM Specialisation
Recommended Prior Knowledge
Course Aims
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
- Critically examine approaches to crime prevention
- Employ various theoretical approaches to analysing crime prevention
- Apply knowledge and theory about crime prevention to contemporary crime problems
- Prepare a crime prevention assessment of a particular site
- Undertake research based on inter-disciplinary sources
- Demonstrate effective written communication skills by articulating crime prevention concepts clearly, persuasively and appropriately;
- 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% |