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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