CY5456 - Crime Prevention and Community Safety

Credit points:	03
Year:	2011
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
Administered by:	School of Arts & Social Sciences

The study of crime prevention and community safety encompasses a range of theoretical and analytical frameworks that address both proximal and distal causes of crime and other deviant behaviour. The main theories of crime prevention (eg routine activity, crime pattern and rational choice) inform criminal justice policy strategies at several levels of intervention - primary, secondary and tertiary. Community safety programmes tend to be collaborative and localised in nature, and are intended to be democratically empowering. This module also examines practical elements of programme design, implementation and evaluation through the selective use of local and international case studies.

Learning Outcomes

• demonstrate a critical understanding of the proximal and distal causes of crime;
• distinguish between selected criminological theories as they are applied to the analysis of crime and critically assess their strengths and weaknesses;
• formulate independent critical ideas and arguments;
• identify key figures, schools and themes in social and situational/environmental crime prevention;
• apply the above knowledge and skills in analyses of specific case studies.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to appraise information critically;
• The ability to place their research in a broader (preferably international)theoretical, practical and policy context.;
• The ability to evaluate and extrapolate from the outcomes of their research;
• The ability to plan, conduct and manage research in their discipline.

Inadmissible Subject Combinations:

CY3456

Availabilities
External, Study Period 1
Census Date 24-Mar-2011
Coordinator:	Dr Mark David Chong
Method of Delivery:	WWW - LearnJCU
Assessment:	multidraft Essays (50%); essays (30%); (20%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.