Undergraduate Module Descriptor

SOC3133: Crime Prevention and Control within Contemporary Society

This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.

Overview

NQF Level 6
Credits 15 ECTS Value 7.5
Term(s) and duration

This module ran during term 1 (11 weeks)

Academic staff

Ms Ashley Frayling (Convenor)

Pre-requisites

None

Co-requisites

None

Available via distance learning

No

This is a unique module which will explore areas of contemporary criminological debate and policy around community safety and crime prevention, ranging from reducing burglaries in local neighbourhoods to preventing radicalisation of individuals from terrorist activity. You will consider issues such as crime displacement, evaluate the use of technology in facial recognition to crime mapping, all while debating the causal patterns of crime and deviance behaviour. Through your assessments you will be provided a unique opportunity to be a criminal justice professional utilising the content and material you have developed over the course of the module and your degree to apply crime prevention techniques and theories to a real world problem.

Module created

20/01/2021

Last revised

20/01/2021