Community safety, crime prevention and social control

Open University Business School
Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Course Format: Classroom | E-learning | Virtual Class | Online | On-site | Blended | Self-paced

Course Description:

'' The issues of crime prevention and reduction, safety and security, alongside the challenge of ‘community governance� are at the centre of many of the most significant, compelling and controversial questions and debates about criminal justice, social control and social policy in contemporary societies. Crime prevention and community safety, both as fields of academic study and as areas of policy and practice, have been transformed by political and intellectual developments over the last two decades. New directions are being set and new questions are being asked. These transformations are related both to the perceived failures and limitations of previous strategies and techniques of prevention and safety, and to the new possibilities being constructed out of wider cultural, social, political and economic changes. This course for the postgraduate studies in social sciences programme introduces this emerging new field of study and practice. Moving beyond the traditional boundaries of both criminology and social policy, it offers an original and challenging reframing of the fields of crime prevention and community safety, based on a synthesis of new thinking in social theory and research. It takes a guided study approach; you will be reading material from a variety of leading authors in the fields, with the aid of a specially prepared study guide.

The course begins by examining the contested and turbulent history of crime prevention and community safety policies in the modern era, focusing on the competing discourses of crime prevention that have been most influential in both academic and policy circles. It then looks at the contemporary context and practice of crime reduction and community safety, exploring the rise to prominence of community safety partnerships to facilitate the local delivery of crime reduction and the promotion of security. Finally, the course explores the possible future developments in new thinking and practice to do with prevention, safety and risk management.

The course should enable you to:

acquire a sound grasp of the key concepts and research findings that help us to analyse the new directions in, and possible futures of, social control;

understand the main trends in crime prevention and community safety in the UK at the beginning of the new millennium;

examine how developments in crime reduction and community safety in the UK compare and contrast with trends in other societies;

interrogate the relationship between the work of academic researchers and scholars and practitioners, policy makers and politicians in this field.

The course is based on a reader, Crime Prevention and Community Safety: New Directions (Sage/The Open University, 2002). This is an edited collection of specially commissioned articles by leading international criminologists, social policy analysts and social theorists.

Vocational relevance
This course is especially relevant to criminal justice and community justice professionals, such as community safety managers and officers, youth justice workers, police officers, probation officers, magistrates and prison officers. It is also very relevant to welfare professionals in the statutory, non-statutory and private sectors. It will help you to reflect constructively on your own experiences and perceptions as a practitioner and policy maker, and to explore the relationship between social theories, academic research and policy and practice.

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