CY5456 - Crime Prevention and Community Safety
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2016 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 1 |
| Administered by: | College of Arts, Society & Education |
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 and reflect critically on advanced and integrated knowledge of crime prevention and community safety in Australia, and the rest of the world;
- Demonstrate knowledge of research principles and methods in crime prevention and community safety in Australia, and the rest of the world;
- Analyse critically and evaluate crime prevention and community safety programmes and initiatives in Australia, and the rest of the world;
- Generate, analyse, synthesise and evaluate complex perspectives, arguments and sources of qualitative and/or quantitative data pertinent to crime prevention, particularly those related to quality of life and community safety in Australia, and the rest of the world;
- Interpret and justify to a specialist and non-specialist audience theoretical propositions, methodologies, conclusions and professional decisions through advanced literacy and where appropriate, numberacy skills;
- Analyse and draft a substantial social science research-based report with a high level of autonomy and accountability;
- Apply modern crime prevention theories or key concepts to research, demonstrating advanced understanding of the relationship between theory and practice, including recent developments, in crime prevention and community safety in Australia, and the rest of the world;
- Respectfully and responsibly apply expert knowledge fo diversity and difference among people, especially vulnerable and Indigenous peoples, in scholarship and/or professional practice;
- Adapt and apply knowledge and skills to identify complex problems and pose creative solutions to crime, community safety and quality of life challenges facing peoples and societies in Australia, and the rest of the world.
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | CY3456 |
Availabilities | |
| External, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 24-Mar-2016 | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Mark Chong |
| Method of Delivery: | WWW - LearnJCU |
| Assessment: | essays (40%); report (60%). |
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.