| CODE | CRM3009 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Designing out Crime: Spatial Planning and the Environment | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 03 - Years 2, 3, 4 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 6 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Criminology | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | Crime exists in a spatial construct that serves as both its cause and effect. The pressures put on society by the environmental and planning scenarios enhance the duality of offender and offence realities. Thus the need for a process aimed at investigating the process of designing out crime through the introduction of proactive, interactive and reactive elements. This study-unit aims to look into the different aspects of spatial planning and environment in relation to the way they expert the pressures on crime and in are turn effected by crime. Urban and rural issues are tackled. Topics include demography, housing, tourism, leisure and recreation, retail, employment, transport and social-community facilities. Various operational and tactical constructs will be reviewed. Study-unit Aims: The aims of this study-unit are: i) to familiarise students with the impacts of crime on the social and physical fabric; ii) to give a fieldwork opportunity to assess specific sites for comparative analysis; iii) to familiarise students with the issues of planning; iv) to empower students on the options available to design out crime; v) to enable students to view crime in terms of its impacts on Spatial Planning and Environment. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: i) understand the how planning effects and is effected by crime; ii) be knowledgeable of the designing-out process; iii) understand the requirements of fieldwork for crime analysis; iv) understand the need for knowledge on urban and rural structures; v) understand how environmental criminological theory helps in designing-out crime. 2. Skills By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: i) carry out fieldwork activity; ii) create a spatial construct on an area with recommendations for the reduction of crime; iii) employ on-the-ground tools for designing-out crime; iv) discuss criminal activity in terms of the context it occurs in. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts - Brantingham P.J. and Brantingham P.L., (eds), (1981), Environmental Criminology, Prospect heights. IL, Waveland Press. - Formosa Pace, J., (2017). Crime prevention : keeping you safe. Crime prevention strategy for the Maltese Islands 2017-2021. Malta: Ministry for Home Affairs and National Security. - Sypion, N., (2023). The influence of high-rise buildings on crime in urban environments. University of Piraeus. International Strategic Management Association. Supplementary readings: - Bottoms A.E., and Wiles P.W., (2001), Explanations of Crime and Space, IN Evans D.J., Fyfe N.R., and Herbert D.T., (2001), Crime, Policing and Place: Essays in Environmental Criminology. Routledge, London, ISBN 0-415-04990-3. - Craglia M., Haining R., and Wiles P., (April 2000), A Comparative Evaluation of Approaches to Urban Crime Pattern Analysis, Urban Studies. Vol. 37, No. 4, 711-729, 2000, University of Glasgow. - Hirschfield A., (2001), Decision Support in Crime Prevention, IN Hirschfield A., and Bowers K., (eds), (2001), Mapping and Analysing Crime Data: Lessons from Research and Practice. Taylor & Francis, London, ISBN: 0-748-40922-X. - Formosa, S. (2010). Maltese criminological landscapes : a spatio-temporal case : where physical and social worlds meet. Digital landscape architecture 2010, Aschersleben. 150-157. - Formosa, S., Formosa Pace, J. & Sciberras, E., (Eds.). (2022). Virtualis : Social, Spatial and Technological Spaces in Real and Virtual Domains : SpatialTrain III. Malta: Planning Authority. - Kubalova, K., and Loveček, T., (2023). Crime Prevention through Environmental Design of Railway Stations as a Specific Soft Target. Sustainability (Basel, Switzerland), 2023, Vol.15 (7), p.5627. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Saviour Formosa |
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