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Criminal Justice Crime Control Policies and Practices
Course: AJS113

First Term: 2023 Fall
 Lecture   3.0 Credit(s)   3.0 Period(s)   3.0 Load  
Subject Type: Occupational
Load Formula: S - Standard Load


Description: 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, and crime prevention through environmental design.



MCCCD Official Course Competencies
1. Identify major environmental crime theories. (I)
2. Distinguish between the environmental perspective and traditional criminological theories. (I, II)
3. Explain the uneven distributions of crime in American society. (I, II, V)
4. Apply environmental design theory to crime control strategies. (I, IV, V)
5. Describe the four stages in the Scanning, Analysis, Response and Assessment (SARA) Model. (III)
6. Define the elements of situational crime prevention. (IV)
7. Discuss the major criticisms and ethical concerns relating to environmental crime prevention. (VI)
MCCCD Official Course Competencies must be coordinated with the content outline so that each major point in the outline serves one or more competencies. MCCCD faculty retains authority in determining the pedagogical approach, methodology, content sequencing, and assessment metrics for student work. Please see individual course syllabi for additional information, including specific course requirements.
 
MCCCD Official Course Outline
I. Introduction to environmental criminology
   A. Focusing on crimes and crime opportunities
   B. The rational choice perspective
   C. Crime pattern theory
   D. Problem-oriented policing
   E. Crime hot spots
   F. Crime mapping and GIS
II. Criminological theories
   A. Routine activities
   B. Social disorganization
   C. Social control
III. Problem identification and solutions paradigm
   A. The Scanning, Analysis, Response, and Assessment (SARA) Model
   B. Data collection
   C. Crime opportunity structures
IV. Situational crime prevention
   A. Increasing the effort to offend
   B. Increasing the risks of detection and apprehension
   C. Reducing the rewards for offending
   D. Reducing provocations that lead to offending
   E. Removing excuses for offending
V. Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED)
   A. Surveillance
   B. Access control
   C. Territorial reinforcement
VI. Criticisms of environmental criminology
   A. Lack of adaptation to changes in human behavior
   B. Differences in criminal approach to the same crimes
   C. Crime displacement
   D. Other challenges
 
MCCCD Governing Board Approval Date: February 28, 2023

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