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2023/2024

Crime Prevention

Code: 100441 ECTS Credits: 6
Degree Type Year Semester
2500257 Criminology OB 2 1

Contact

Name:
Carles Vicén Jové
Email:
carles.vicen@uab.cat

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Teachers

Angelina Sanchez Marti
José Ramón Tello Sánchez

Prerequisites

It's recommended to have passed the courses of Pedagogy and Introduction to Criminology.


Objectives and Contextualisation

The general objectives are the following:

Students of the criminology degree will be able to:

1. Applying the knowledge of criminological theories to the experiences of conflict and criminality, and suggest appropriate responses according to the existing legal framework.

2. Suggest answers to the problems of crime and social conflict, taking into account the rights and interests of all parties involved and considering the values of solving social conflicts, social integration and preventing new conflicts.

In this context, the subject of crime prevention programs have the following specific objectives:

1. Identify appropriate preventive measures for criminological problems

2. Know how to choose and implement properly the different models of crime prevention.

3. Design crime prevention programs

4. Apply criminological methods of research in the field of crime prevention.


Competences

  • Ability to analyse and summarise.
  • Applying a crime prevention program at a community level.
  • Applying an intervention proposal about a person serving a sentence.
  • Assessing the results of a prevention or intervention program when crime is concerned.
  • Carrying out the criminological intervention on the basis of the values of pacification, social integration and prevention of further conflicts.
  • Demonstrating a comprehension of the victim's needs on the basis of the knowledge of victimological theories.
  • Designing a crime prevention program.
  • Drawing up an academic text.
  • Identifying existing social resources to intervene in the conflict and criminality.
  • Students must demonstrate a comprehension of the best crime prevention and intervention models for each specific problem.
  • Students must demonstrate they know a variety of criminal policies in order to face criminality and its different foundations.
  • Students must demonstrate they know the legal framework and operating model of the crime control agents.
  • Using research methods in social sciences in order to diagnose criminality problems.
  • Using the evaluation techniques of criminogenic risk and needs of a person in order to decide an intervention proposal.
  • Verbally transmitting ideas to an audience.
  • Working autonomously.
  • Working in teams and networking.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Ability to analyse and summarise.
  2. Acting in a professional way in the criminological field for pacifying, social integration and delinquency-prevention purposes.
  3. Applying a prevention program for crime control agents.
  4. Applying an effective evaluative model in order to detect the criminological intervention needs in prison population.
  5. Appropriately applying social resources to criminality.
  6. Appropriately managing a security or prevention team.
  7. Carrying out a results analysis of a delinquency prevention program.
  8. Correctly describing in the criminological field the legal-penal framework and crime control agents.
  9. Demonstrating they know the means and scientific procedures of crime prevention.
  10. Developing a security plan in the private field.
  11. Drawing up a delinquency prevention program.
  12. Drawing up an academic text.
  13. Effectively and individually implementing a criminological intervention.
  14. Effectively developing a delinquency prevention program in the community area.
  15. Intervening in the criminological field for pacifying, conciliatory and crime-prevention purposes.
  16. Knowing the structural prevention strategy of delinquency.
  17. Producing a social prevention program of delinquency.
  18. Properly using the criminological prevention and intervention programs.
  19. Students must be capable of carrying out a security audit in the public field.
  20. Using risk analysis methods in the field of safety.
  21. Verbally transmitting ideas to an audience.
  22. Working autonomously.
  23. Working in teams and networking.

Content

Chapter I. Basic concepts of prevention

1. Introduction

1.1. Basic concepts

1.2. Primary, secondary and tertiary crime prevention

2. Risk and Protection Analysis. 

2.1. Static and dynamics risk factors.

2.2. Triple criminal risk

3. Management of criminal risk

3.1. Needs detection.

3.2. Assessment instruments and tools.

4. Design and evaluation of a prevention program

Chapter II. Theoretical models of crime prevention

4. Classic and neoclassic model

5. Situational model

6. Ecological model. CPTED (Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design)

7. Developmental and social prevention. Micro-level

   7.1. Family

   7.2. School and peer groups

8. Developmental and social prevention. Macro-level

   8.1. Community

   8.2. Mass media

9. Victim prevention programs

Chapter III. Cyber Crime. Cyber Prevention.

10. Cyber Crime. Methods and Models changes.

11. Micro and macro Cybercrime. Transnational organitzations.

12. Social networking in prevention


Methodology

The following methodologies will be used:

1. Lectures, with documents, videos and presentations.

2. Seminars in which students will present the progress in the group work, and cases studies will be discussed.

3. Guided tour of the old prision "la Modelo" in Barcelona.

4. Students are advised to ask for tutorials to progress in the individual and group learning.

5. Individual assignments. Two individual essays.

6. Work group. Students need to elaborate and deliver a crime prevention program.

7. Individual work to prepare the exam (part one test with multiple choice and second part with different real cases to analyze)

Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.


Activities

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Lectures 18 0.72 2, 5, 3, 14, 7, 15, 11, 12, 17, 1, 21, 22, 23, 18
Seminars 18 0.72 2, 5, 3, 14, 7, 15, 11, 12, 17, 1, 21, 22, 23, 18
Type: Supervised      
Exam 5 0.2 5, 9, 7, 1, 22, 18
Type: Autonomous      
Group work (Search for material, discussion, presentation preparation) 30 1.2 2, 5, 4, 3, 16, 9, 8, 14, 10, 7, 6, 15, 11, 12, 17, 1, 21, 22, 23, 18, 20
Work planning reading, reflection of materials and preparation of individual works. 79 3.16 2, 5, 3, 9, 8, 14, 7, 6, 13, 15, 11, 12, 17, 1, 21, 22, 23, 18

Assessment

Models of evaluation

1. Single evaluation. According to the Faculty of Law, the single evaluation can be carried out, with finaly exam. This exam will consist of a theorical section documented in the bibliography, and another practical part of the work in the seminar.

2. Continuous evaluation model.

Conditions to be evaluated

Minimum attendance of 80% in lectures and seminars is compulsory. Justifications of non-attendance are only accepted for illness or similar reasons.

Students need to participate actively in lectures and seminars, as well as presenting the two individual assignments, the group reserarch project, and the final exam. Out of time submissions are not accepted.

Items of evaluation

Individual works (30%), Group work (25%), Final exam (35%), Assistance and participation (10%)

Requirements to pass the subject

Students need to obtain a minimum grade of 5 in each one of the assessment activities.

Resit

Students will have the opportunity to resit when they fail any of the assessed activities. 

Consequences of fraud

Students  that cheat or attempt to cheat in the exam will get a 0, losing the right to a second chance. Plagiarism will conduct to a fail of the essay and, in case of recidivism the student will receive a fail mark.

Punctuality

Classes start on time. Late arrival and leaving the class before the end is not admitted. Except justified cases.


Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Attendance and participation 10% 0 0 2, 5, 3, 14, 7, 15, 11, 12, 17, 1, 21, 22, 23, 18
Final Exam 35% 0 0 2, 5, 3, 16, 9, 14, 7, 15, 11, 12, 17, 1, 21, 22, 23, 18
Group research project 25% 0 0 2, 5, 4, 3, 9, 8, 14, 10, 7, 6, 15, 11, 12, 17, 19, 1, 21, 22, 23, 18, 20
Individual assignments (2) 30% 0 0 2, 5, 3, 8, 14, 7, 13, 15, 11, 12, 17, 1, 21, 22, 23, 18

Bibliography

MANDATORY READINGS

Redondo, S. (2015). Confluencia de riesgos: Una teoría criminológica unificada. El Origen de los Delitos (pp. 209-269). Tirant lo Blanch Ed.

San-Juan, C. & Vozmediano, L. (2021). Guía de Prevención del Delito. (pp.1-61) Bosch Ed.

COMPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY

Cid, J. & Larrauri, E. (2023). Teorías Criminológicas: Explicación y Prevención de la Delincuencia (2ª ed.).  Bosch.

Escuela de Policía. (2023). Herramientas para la reducción de la criminalidad. Gran Bretaña. recuperado: https://www.college.police.uk/research/crime-reduction-toolkit

Farrington, D. & Welsh, B. (2008). Saving childrem from a Life of Crime: Early Risk Factors and Effective Interventions. Oxford University Press.

Instituto Nacional de Justicia (2023). Programas y prácticas de prevención criminal. EUA Ministerio de Justicia. https://crimesolutions.ojp.gov 

Lab, S. P. (2014). Evaluación de la prevención de la criminalidad. Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practices, and Evaluations  (8th edition) (pp.35-50),  Routledge. Taylor & Francis Group.

Medina, J. (2011). La prevención del delito. Políticas y Estrategias de Prevencion del Delito y Seguridad Ciudadana. (pp.1-43). Edisofer.

Panchón, C. (1998). Manual de Pedagogía de la Inadaptación Social. Dulac.

Pincus, J. H. (2003). Instintos Básicos. Ed. Oberon.

Redondo, S. & Garrido, V. (2023). Principios de Criminologia(5ª ed.). Tirant lo Blanch.

Redondo, S. & Sanchez-Meca, J. Garrido, V. (2002). Los programas psicológicos con delincuentes y su efectividad: la situacion europea. Psicotema, 14(1, extra), 164-173.

Rojas, L. (2004). Las Semillas de la Conducta Violenta. Espasa Calpe.

Vázquez, C. (2003) Predicción y prevención de la delincuencia juvenil según las teorías del desarrollo social (social development theories). Revista de Derecho, 14, 135-158  

Velasco de la Fuente, P. (2021). Homo Criminalis: el Crimen a un Clic: los Nuevos Riesgos de la Sociedad Actual (pp 315-399).  Ariel

Welsch, B. & Farrington, D.  (2012) The Oxford Handbook of Crime Prevention. Oxford University Press.


Software

Virtual Campus of UAB. Moodle classroom.