• E4J University Module Series: Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice

• Module 2: Crime Prevention

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

  • Topic 1:  Definition of crime prevention and terminology
  • Topic 2:  Key crime prevention typologies
  • Topic 2 cont.:  Detailed explanation of Tonry and Farrington's typology
  • Topic 3:  Crime problem-solving approaches
  • Topic 4:  What works
  • Summary
  • References

• Exercises

• Case studies

• Possible class structure

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Student assessment

• Additional teaching tools

• Further resources

• • United Nations entities
  • Regional crime prevention councils / institutions
  • Key clearinghouses
  • Systematic reviews

• Guidelines to develop a stand-alone course

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• First published in March 2019
  

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  This module is a resource for lecturers  

 

Core reading

 

This section provides a list of (mostly) open access materials that the lecturer could ask the students to read before taking a class based on this Module.

• Bjørgo, Tore (2016). Preventing Crime: A Holistic Approach. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Brantingham, Paul and Faust, Frederic L (1976). A conceptual model of crime prevention, Crime and Delinquency, vol. 22, No. 3, 284-96.
• Chainey, Spencer and Ratcliffe, Jerry (2005). GIS and crime mapping. Chester: Wiley and Sons.
• Clarke, Ronald V (2012). Opportunity makes the thief. Really? And so what?. Crime Science, vol. 1, No. 3, 1-9.
• Ekblom, Paul (2011). Intelligence. In Crime Prevention, Security and Community Safety Using the 5Is Framework. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Homel, Ross and Thomsen, Lisa (2017). Developmental Crime Prevention. In N. Tilley and A. Sidebottom, eds. Handbook of Crime Prevention and Community Safety. Devon: Willan Publishing.
• Johnson, Shane D, Tilley, Nick, and Bowers, Kate J (2015). Introducing EMMIE: an evidence rating scale to encourage mixed-method crime prevention synthesis reviews. Journal of Experimental Criminology, vol. 11. No. 3, 459-473.
• Lab, Steven (2016). Crime Prevention: approaches, practices and evaluations. New Providence: LexisNexis.
• MacKenzie, Doris and Farrington, David (2015). Preventing future offending of delinquents and offenders: what have we learned from experiments and meta-analyses? Journal of Experimental Criminology, vol. 11, No. 4, 565-595.
• Sampson, Robert (2004). Neighbourhood and community: Collective efficacy and community safety. New Economy, vol. 11, No. 2, 106-113.
• Schneider, Stephen (2014). Crime Prevention: Theory and Practice. Boca Raton: CRC Press.
• Sutton, Adam, Cherney, Adrian, and White, Rob (2014). Crime Prevention - Principles, Perspectives and Practices. Port Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.
• Tilley, Nick (2009). Crime Prevention. Devon: Willan Publishing.
• Tonry, Michael and Farrington, David (1995). Building a safer community: strategic approaches to crime prevention. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
• United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) (2010). Handbook on the Crime Prevention Guidelines - Making them work. Vienna: UNODC.
• van Dijk, Jan and de Waard, Jaap (1991). A two-dimensional typology of crime prevention projects. Criminal Justice Abstracts, vol. 23, No. 4, 483-503.
• Weisburd, David., Farrington, David, and Gill, Charlotte (2016). What Works in Crime Prevention and Rehabilitation: Lessons from Systematic Reviews. London: Springer.

 

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