James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2024

CY3456 - Crime Prevention and Community Safety

CY3456 (Townsville) will only be offered EXTERNALLY for 2020.

Subject Description

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 subject also examines practical elements of programme design, implementation and evaluation through the selective use of local and international case studies.

Learning Outcomes

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

Subject Assessment

• Written > Examination - In class - (40%) - Individual
• Written > Test/Quiz 1 - (20%) - Individual
• Written > Case study analysis - (40%) - Individual

Note that 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.

Inadmissible Subject Combinations:  CY5456

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