AJS 250 - Criminal Justice Crime Control Policies and Practices

1. Identify major crime prevention/environmental theories.
2. Describe the four stages in the Scanning, Analysis, Response and Assessment (SARA) Model.
3. Explain the uneven distributions of crime in American society.
4. Use environmental design theory to design crime control strategies.
5. Discuss the major criticisms and ethical concerns as well as likely effectiveness relating to crime prevention.

1. Introduction to Environmental Criminology 
   1. Focusing on criminal events 
   2. Problem-oriented policing
   3. Crime opportunities 
   4. Crime hot spots 
2. Problem Identification 
   1. The Scanning, Analysis, Response, and Assessment(SARA) Model
   2. Data collection 
   3. Crime opportunity structures 
   4. The rational choice perspective 
3. Situational Crime Prevention 
   1. Routine activities
   2. Types of controllers 
   3. Crime pattern theory
   4. Offender targets 
4. Crime Prevention through Environmental Design
   1. Defensible space 
   2. Offender adaptation 
   3. Crime displacement 
5. Criticisms of Environmental Criminology
   1. Crime mapping 
   2. Challenges