Crime Prevention (5 cr)

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

Location and time

- 16.05.2025, klo 15:15 - 17:45 – Luennon paikka: Tuomo and online TEAMS
- 19.05.2025, klo 16:00 - 18:00 – Online-luento (TEAMS)
- 26.05.2025, klo 16:00 - 18:00 – Online-luento (TEAMS)
- 02.06.2025, klo 16:00 - 18:00 – Online-luento (TEAMS)
- 09.06.2025, klo 16:00 - 18:00 – Online-luento (TEAMS)
- 25.08.2025, klo 16:00 - 18:00 – Online-luento (TEAMS)

Materials

1) Notes from the lectures,

2) Problem Solving Violent Crime: A Guide for Analysts by Aiden Sidebottom, Iain Agar, Iain Brennan & Spencer Chainey, UK College of Policing, 2024
Available at: https://popcenter.asu.edu/sites/default/files/problem_solving_violent_crime_guide_for_analysts_uk_college_of_policing_2024.pdf

3) Haaste-magazine, numerot 1-4/2024

Teaching methods

This course is a mix of academic criminology theories along with practical crime prevention. The main focus is to learn from international and national crime prevention projects on how crimes and criminality can be prevented by utilizing researched knowledge and theories.

The course includes traditional lectures as well as online guidance, but the main emphasis is on the student's independent study, especially in the preparation of independent written work. The task is to analyze successful crime prevention projects and thereby learn about crime prevention.

The course also includes an online exam and the creation of a short video about one's own written work.

Lectures and assignment setting are scheduled for the beginning of the course in May and June, and correspondingly, in the summer months of June, July, and August, students have time to work on a development/learning task.

The online exam is "open" for several weeks, so everyone can find a suitable time to take the exam.

Below is the plan (a more detailed schedule and instructions will be provided in the CANVAS workspace):

1. Lecture: Crime and criminality – definitions and introduction to criminological theories + assignment briefing
2. Lecture: Continuation of criminological theories
3. Lecture: Social change, crime, criminality, and crime prevention
4. Lecture: Crime prevention and authorities
5. Learning task tutoring session
6. Student presentations and feedback

Exam schedules

Schedule
Lectures:
16.05.2025, klo 15:15 - 17:45 – Luennon paikka: Tuomo (90 henkilöä)
- 19.05.2025, klo 16:00 - 18:00 – Online-luento (TEAMS)
- 26.05.2025, klo 16:00 - 18:00 – Online-luento (TEAMS)
- 02.06.2025, klo 16:00 - 18:00 – Online-luento (TEAMS)
- 09.06.2025, klo 16:00 - 18:00 – Online-luento (TEAMS)
- 25.08.2025, klo 16:00 - 18:00 – Online-luento (TEAMS)

Exam:
09.06.2025, 09:00 - 31.08.2025, 23:59

Student Presentations:
25.08.2025

Assignment and Video Submission Deadline:
31.07.2025

Student workload

133,5 hrs/5 ECTS

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

Evaluation scale

H-5

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.