LLB201 Policing and Crime Prevention

You have been contracted to prepare a briefing to the Melville City Mayor on how to reduce residential burglary victimisation in the area. The Mayor has little understanding of crime prevention and it is vital he/she be briefed comprehensively as the Council and the local Police have been receiving adverse complaints from the public as well as drawing media criticism. Drawing on for example the SARA components of the POP framework explain the types of activities you believe the Mayor should be briefed upon to aid the reduction of this crime in the Council area. Your critical response to either of the CRM201 or LLB201 questions should draw on your knowledge about crime patterns, crime prevention theory, and the capacity to modify crime opportunities. It is expected that you will draw heavily on empirical literature and applied criminological research to formulate and substantiate your argument. Your response will include a minimum of 15 references. Given the applied nature of this research and the wide-range of sources of information that are available, it is acceptable to use government reports (e.g., the Australian Institute of Criminology reports) and evaluations undertaken by government agencies (e.g., finalists in both the Goldstein Awards and Tilley Awards) in addition to peer-reviewed academic sources (journal articles or edited books). Unpublished web pages are not acceptable sources of information. Neither is the lecture material. You are expected to make an argument which is substantiated with the use of evidence. To receive a good mark for your work, your position will need to be justified and the literature you cite to demonstrate the veracity of your claim will need to be explained. These fully referenced ‘facts’ will provide the bedrock on which you will build your argument. Your work must be fully referenced in correct APA format. This means that each time you make a statement of fact you need to provide an in-text citation with an accompanying full reference at the end of your essay. Referencing fully ensures your work does not look like it has been made up and means you will not present someone else’s ideas as your own (see University policies on plagiarism). Consistent failure to reference will result in a fail because your argument will not be convincing.