School Of Social SciencesEnvironmental Criminology and Public PolicyWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 400678.2
Discipline: CRIMINOLOGY
Student Contribution Band: 1
Level: 3
Credit Points: 10
Assumed Knowledge
Foundation units in criminology
Unit Enrolment Restrictions
Successful completion of 80 credit points.
About this Unit
The unit examines traditions of criminological theorising and research, and, public intervention that take the social and spatial context(s) and determinants of crime and its governance as its object of inquiry. It introduces participants to the principal sources of data collection, their methodologies and theoretical underpinnings concerned with the spatial and social ecological dispersion of crime and deviance and its techniques of management and control. It also explores the relationship of public safety and crime prevention to public policy/interventions in areas such as urban and regional planning, housing, local government and community services.