The Policy and Practice of Crime Control and Crime Prevention (CRIM2140)
Information valid for Semester 1, 2024
Course level
Undergraduate
Faculty
Humanities Arts Social Science
School
Social Science School
Units
2
Duration
One Semester
Attendance mode
In Person
Class hours
General contact hours 3 Hours/ Week
Incompatible
CRIM2120, CRIM3120, CRIM7120, CRIM7140
Prerequisite
CRIM1000 and CRIM1019
Recommended prerequisite
CRIM1111
Assessment methods
Take home assessment
Essay
Paper
Course enquiries
Professor Adrian Cherney (Semester 1, St Lucia, In person)
Study Abroad
This course is pre-approved for Study Abroad and Exchange students.
Current course offerings
Course offerings | Location | Mode | Course Profile |
Semester 1, 2024 (19/02/2024 - 15/06/2024) | St Lucia | In Person | Course Profile |
Please Note: Course profiles marked as not available may still be in development.
Course description
In recent years the effectiveness of the criminal justice system has come under sustained criticism. This has demanded policy responses underpinned by strategies and tactics informed by sound, scientific evidence and rigorous program evaluation. This course will teach students to recognise, assess, and generate evidence-based crime policies across a range of contexts and criminal justice domains such as police, courts, and corrections. This will include a focus on how government and non-government agencies can develop "upstream" responses; that is policies and programs that aim to prevent crime before they become "downstream" problems requiring responses by the criminal justice system. This requires an evidence-based approach that emphasises problem solving and analysis. Topics will include program design and evaluation and the course will cover various crime prevention approaches such as crime prevention through environmental design, situational crime prevention, social prevention, and developmental crime prevention.
Archived offerings
Course offerings | Location | Mode | Course Profile |
Semester 1, 2025 (24/02/2025 - 21/06/2025) | St Lucia | In Person | Profile unavailable |
Semester 1, 2023 (20/02/2023 - 17/06/2023) | St Lucia | In Person | Course Profile |