CJ 4110 - Crime Prevention, Planning & Analysis

Crime is an issue that impacts individuals, communities, and nations globally. Accordingly, efforts to produce meaningful and sustainable changes in our responses to crime are essential to criminal justice professionals, policymakers, community stakeholders, researchers, and the public at large. With this in mind, the purpose of this course is to provide students with the foundational understanding and skillsets needed to analyze a crime problem and develop a crime prevention solution in the form of a policy and/or program. Students will learn the steps to develop an informed policy/program (i.e., analyzing the problem, setting goals/objectives, program/policy development, action planning, implementation/monitoring) and how to evaluate outcomes. In doing so, students will engage in data collection and analysis through engaging with scholarly discourse.

3 Credits