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.

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24 credit points of any level 1, 2 and/or 3 subjects

24 credit points of any level 1, 2 and/or 3 subjects Offerings: All

Crime Prevention and Community Safety

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CY3456 - Crime Prevention and Community Safety

To distinguish between selected criminological theories as they are applied to the analysis of crime and critically assess their strengths and weaknesses

To demonstrate a critical understanding of the proximal and distal causes of crime

To identify key figures, schools and central themes in social and situational/environmental crime prevention

To apply these skills to the analysis of specific criminological case studies

To formulate independent critical ideas and arguments