JSB170 Comprehensive Exam Notes: Crime, Criminals, and Policing Insights

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- Consists of weeks 2-12 - JSB170 Weekly Topics Week 2: What is Crime and Who is a Criminal? Legal definitions, social constructions, norms, deviance, criminalisation. Week 3: Extent and Location of Crime Crime measurement, official statistics, self-report surveys, crime funnel. Week 4: Individual Explanations of Crime Classical and positivist theories, biological and psychological factors. Week 5: Social Explanations of Crime Strain theory, social disorganisation, differential association, labelling, conflict and feminist theories. Week 6: History of Policing Origins of modern policing, Peel’s principles, colonial and Australian policing. Week 7: Eras and Models of Policing Policing eras, community policing, right/left realism, postmodernism, routine activity theory. Week 8: Organisations of Policing Police agencies (AUS, USA, UK), Interpol, police corruption and culture. Week 9: Youth Crime Age-crime curve, developmental theories (Moffitt, Sampson & Laub), youth justice in QLD. Week 10: Crime in the Home Domestic and family violence, child abuse, elder abuse, child protection laws. Week 11: White Collar and Environmental Crime Occupational/state-corporate crime, fraud, victimisation, impacts. Week 12: Street Crime Public space crimes, youth gangs, fear of crime, CPTED, crime prevention strategies.