Course Title
Crime Prevention and Policy
Course Description
This course examines methods and programs of crime prevention. Throughout the course, students will learn how policy issues and considerations (including but not limited to race, class, labor markets, education, and gender) impact frameworks for crime prevention and system and community responses to crime. Students will learn about system-based and situationally-based approaches and will examine the overlap between these varying approaches to crime prevention. Students will learn about primary, secondary, and tertiary crime prevention measures and will also critically examine research and data in order to evaluate the effectiveness of various measures of prevention. 4 SH.
Course Types
Standard (STAND)
Semester Hours
4