As part of the formal assessment for the programme you are required to submit an Environmental Criminology report.
Please refer to your Student Handbook for full details of the programme assessment scheme and general information on preparing and submitting assignments. Learning Outcomes: After completing the module, you should be able to:
1) Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of environmental and geographical approaches towards crime and offending behaviour.
2) Develop the capacity to evaluate situational crime prevention and its relationship to the ‘what works’ movement.
3) Apply a range of theoretical perspectives and develop basic skills and abilities to critically analyse the social construction of crime.
4) Demonstrate an understanding of the significance of global, political and economic structures within which definitions of crime and harm are situated.
5) Demonstrate an understanding of the ways in which problems may have different characteristics in local and global perspectives, and present different ethical challenges at each level.
Guidance Your assignment should include: a title page containing your student number, the module name, the submission deadline and the exact word count of your submitted document; the appendices if relevant; and a reference list in AU Harvard system(s). You should address all the elements of the assignment task listed below. Please note that tutors will use the assessment criteria set out below in assessing your work. You must not include your name in your submission because Arden University operates anonymous marking, which means that markers should not be aware of the identity of the student. However, please do not forget to include your STU number.
Green criminology is often described as a ‘perspective’ that does not have any unique theories of its own. Is this true? If so, to what extent does it matter?
Crime mapping is still widely used to show ‘hotspots’ of crime and help create ways of reducing them. What can maps show us, and what can they not show? Over time, have crime trends changed so that traditional geographic mapping is no longer as useful as it once was?
