Develop the capacity to evaluate situational crime prevention and its relationship tothe ‘what works’ movement.

ANSWER QUESTION: Jane Jacobs and others argued that neighbourhoods with a strong sense ofcommunity can exercise informal social controls and keep crime levels relatively low.In today’s society, where neighbourhoods are often more fragmented, how realistic isit to rely on the idea of ‘community’ based crime prevention? What problems could itpresent? LEARNING OUTCOMES TO COVER: 1) Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of environmental and geographicalapproaches towards crime and offending behaviour.2) Develop the capacity to evaluate situational crime prevention and its relationship tothe ‘what works’ movement.3) Apply a range of theoretical perspectives and develop basic skills and abilities tocritically analyse the social construction of crime.4) Demonstrate an understanding of the significance of global, political and economicstructures within which definitions of crime and harm are situated.5) Demonstrate an understanding of the ways in which problems may have differentcharacteristics in local and global perspectives, and present different ethicalchallenges at each level.

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