Crime Prevention and Policy
UndergraduateLTU-LCR20032026
Course information for 2026 intake
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 22 Feb 2026
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 12 weeks
- Start dates
- 2 Mar 2026
- Price from
- $2,174
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Crime Prevention and Policy
About this subject
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of the ethical considerations, principles and theories of the crime prevention strategies implemented by the criminal justice system.
- Critically analyse evidence-based approaches to crime prevention and know how to use scientific methods to determine the efficacy of these strategies.
- Understand and explain the role of the individual, community, police, politician, media, and policymakers in designing, implementing, and evaluating crime prevention strategies.
- Design and analyse crime prevention strategies.
- Reinforce collaborative skills by working as a team.
- Fear of crime and crime prevention
- Situational crime prevention
- Neighbourhood crime prevention
- Crime prevention through environmental design
- Mass media and crime prevention
- Developmental crime prevention
- Displacement and diffusion
- Prediction for secondary prevention
- Substance use, crime, and crime prevention
- The school and crime prevention
- Evaluation and crime prevention
It is argued that we live in a risk-based society where the focus on crime has moved from capture and punishment to management and prevention. Drawing on key theories from criminology, sociology, psychology, behavioural economics, and public health the individual, community, police, politicians, media, and policymakers’ roles in crime prevention will be explored and critiqued. Specifically, through innovative real-world practical applications of situational crime prevention, developmental crime prevention, individual crime prevention, community crime prevention, and economic disruption, the importance of implementing evidenced-based crime prevention policies will be understood. By reviewing the process of having to carefully design, plan, implement, and evaluate crime prevention strategies, the ethical considerations, and the practical challenges of needing to collaborate with partners from community and government to prevent crime are examined.
- Crime Prevention Policy Pitch (Group Work - Pairs) (1000 word equiv) (30%)
- Learning Activity Portfolio (Part A) Students will submit two learning activities from weeks 1 to 3 at the end of week 3 as part of their learning activity portfolio (2 x 200 words = 400 words). (10%)
- Learning Activity Portfolio (Part B) Students will submit two learning activities from weeks 4 to 6 at the end of week 6 as part of their learning activity portfolio (2 x 200 words = 400 words). (10%)
- Crime Prevention Strategy Design 1. (2500 words) (50%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- LAT-CRM-DEG-2026 - Bachelor of Criminology
- LAT-CPS-DEG-2026 - Bachelor of Criminology/Bachelor of Psychological Science
Others
Prerequisites: Students must have completed 90 credit points.
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
UndergraduateLAT-CRM-DEG
Bachelor of Criminology/Bachelor of Psychological Science
UndergraduateLAT-CPS-DEG