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Week One
CheckPoint: Survey of Local Crime Prevention Efforts
You have been hired to help your city council in an effort to improve crime prevention
methods within your community. Write a written proposal outlining
DQ 1; There are several subareas that make up the criminological enterprise. Which
areas interest you and why?
DQ 2: Research statistics for your state or nation related to one of the following types
of crime: Murder, theft, drug use, sexual assault, or kidnapping. Are the rates for this
crime increasing or decreasing? What factors contribute to the trend?
Week Three
DQ 1; Provide examples of one physical, one environmental, and one social factor
that may affect criminal behavior. What kind of criminal behavior might result from
each of these factors?
Week Four
CheckPoint: Social Structure Crime
Locate an example of a crime that may be explained by social structure theories.
Week Five
CheckPoint: Adolescent Offenders
Locate a recent news article about an adolescent offender. Refer to Figure 9.2 on p.
292 of Criminology. Describe the development of the offenders
Week Six
CheckPoint: Violent Land
Post a 200- to 300-word response
Week Seven
CheckPoint: Crime Prevention Methods for Property Crime and Enterprise
Crime
List three crime prevention methods for property crime and three crime prevention
methods for enterprise crime. Use the Internet to research the success of each
method
Week Eight
CheckPoint: Public Policies
Research and define one public policy or program that is currently used to prevent
public order crimes in your community.
Week 9
Final Project: Public Policy Implications of Criminological Theories
Depending on the way that crime is interpreted, the public policy implications
change.Resources: Criminology and Appendix A