Criminal Justice
CRIM 5602: Crime, Place, and Community
Seminar - 4 credits
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- Reviews in-depth the relationship between the characteristics of and social processes in communities and criminal behavior within those communities.
- Explores the nature of communities and crime through research-policy collaborations.
- Examines the complementary roles of “communities” and the “places” therein (i.e., individual properties) in shaping crime patterns.
- Examines how public safety agencies do their job through conversations with local practitioners.
- Investigates the design and execution of a research study on how community organizations and public agencies interface in addressing “problem properties.”
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