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This module is designed to critically engage students in an understanding of the significance of special and temporal issues on crime and policies regarding crime, prevention and security.  The intention is to introduce and reflect on ideas around maintaining sustainable communities in terms of crime prevention measures and to develop students’ capacity to demonstrate discipline-specific abilities in terms of their capacity to analyse, assess and communicate empirical information about crime, victimization, responses to crime and deviance, and representations of crime.

1) Theories associated with environmental criminology, including social disorganisation approaches, routine activities.
2) Insights into the important role of crime pattern analysis in terms of prediction, prevention and targeting (e.g. problem oriented policing, situational crime prevention approaches)
3) Consideration of the merits and demerits of the ‘what works’ paradigm in relation to crime and disorder and community safety

i. Knowledge and Understanding
On completion of the module students should be able to demonstrate:
1) A critical understanding of environmental and geographical approaches towards crime and offending behaviour 
2) A sound knowledge and capacity to evaluate situational crime prevention and its relationship to the what works movement.
3) Advanced knowledge of a range of theoretical and critical perspectives in relation to crime and social harm;
4) A sophisticated understanding of global issues relating to crimes against the environment.

ii. Skills
By the end of the module, students should be able to:
1) Critically analyse the social construction of crime through a variety of theoretical perspectives;
2) Construct sophisticated arguments about the contested nature of criminological theory and practice;
3) Independently search for and retrieve information from a variety of sources;  
4) Articulate a personal view on where the future of criminology as a discipline lies.

Staff/student contact: 16%
Student private study 84%
Methods include: lectures, workshops, videos, guest speakers

The Library Catalogue contains full details of the current reading list for this module. Further details may also be found in the Module Guide.