Study Guide

Learning outcomes

The student is able to:
- define criminology and crime prevention principles and apply those
- define crime prevention operators and their roles
- assess and manage organisations’ crime risks
- create organisation’s situational awareness of crime risks
- create crime prevention plan and procedures

Teaching methods

This study unit is a melange of academic lectures and practitioners point-of-views together with a assignments on crime prevention, not forgetting an online exam in which learnings of selected literature (and notes from the lectures) will be assessed.

The studies contains classroom teaching, online teaching, as well as independent work.

The stress is on theories of criminology and how to apply them in real world crime prevention.

Learning materials and recommended literature

CANVAS-material

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- Ronald V. Clarke & John Eck (2003). Become a Problem Solving Crime Analyst in 55 Small Steps. Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science & University College London: New York, NY & London, UK.
Available online at: https://popcenter.asu.edu/sites/default/files/library/reading/PDFs/55stepsUK.pdf

- Marcus Felson & Ronald V. Clarke (1998). Opportunity Makes the Thief - Practical theory for crime prevention. Home Office. Policing and Reducing Crime Unit. Research, Development and Statistics Directorate
Available online at: https://popcenter.asu.edu/sites/default/files/opportunity_makes_the_thief.pdf

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3 to 4 selected articles from Crime Prevention and Community Safety -journal (details will be given at the beginning of the course)
All articles are available online from Laurea library database.

Students workload

133,5 hrs/5 ECTS

(One credit equals approximately 26.7 hours of work performed by the student.)

Grading scale

H-5

Evaluation methods and criteria

5-1, Failed
Online exam (30 % of the total points of the study unit)
Assignment (70 % of the total points of the study unit)

Grading scale:
Grade/points
Failed < 40 points
1 40 - < 51 points
2 51 - < 63 points
3 63 - < 75 points
4 75 - < 87 points
5 87 – 100 points

Approved completion of the study unit requires that you will receive minimum 40 points in total, however, both the assignment must be returned and the online exam has to be done.


Requirement level II.

Qualifications

Before enrolling to this study unit, you should have adequate competence of safety, security and risk management, which you can acquire for example by completing study unit HT00BN79 Basics of Corporate Safety, Security and Risk Management (10 cr) or TO00BS57 Basic Theory of Corporate Safety, Security and Risk Management (5 cr) at Open University of Applied Sciences.