Criminal Justice Crime Control Policies and Practices

Catalog description

3 Lecture. Focus on changing the distribution of crime opportunities rather than offender motivation. Topics include application of situational crime prevention strategies, problem-oriented crime control approaches, hot spots policing, defensible space, and crime prevention through defensible space. Students will be able to: identify major crime prevention/environmental theories; describe the four stages in the Scanning, Analysis, Response and Assessment (SARA) Model; explain the uneven distributions crime in American society; distinguish between the environmental perspective and traditional theories of criminality; use environmental design theory to design crime control strategies; discuss the major criticisms and ethical concerns relating to environmental crime prevention.