Course Coordinator:Timothy Prenzler (tprenzle@usc.edu.au) School:School of Law and Society
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Blended learning | Most of your course is on campus but you may be able to do some components of this course online. |
Online |
Online | You can do this course without coming onto campus, unless your program has specified a mandatory onsite requirement. |
Please go to unisc.edu.au for up to date information on the
teaching sessions and campuses where this course is usually offered.
Applied Crime Prevention examines a range of traditional and innovative strategies designed to reduce crime. The focus of the course is on 'what works' and successful case studies, but it includes attention to ineffective strategies and unintended consequences. The course provides opportunities for students to investigate select areas of crime prevention theory and application, including in the security management field.
| Activity | Hours | Beginning Week | Frequency |
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| Learning materials – For consumption before tutorials | 1hr | Week 1 | 12 times |
| Tutorial/Workshop 1 – Tutorial | 2hrs | Week 1 | 10 times |
| Online | |||
| Learning materials – For consumption before tutorials | 1hr | Week 1 | 12 times |
| Tutorial/Workshop 1 – Tutorial | 2hrs | Week 1 | 10 times |
Best practice standards; policing, punishment and incapacitation; corrections, therapies and reintegration; developmental and community approaches; situational prevention; Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design; security management principles; physical security; case studies; the security industry
All topics may contain mature content
200 Level (Developing)
12 units
| Course Learning Outcomes On successful completion of this course, you should be able to... | Graduate Qualities Completing these tasks successfully will contribute to you becoming... | |
| 1 | Summarise, analyse and evaluate governmental and community-based approaches to crime prevention. |
Knowledgeable Creative and critical thinker |
| 2 | Communicate principles of situational crime prevention, CPTED and security management as they relate to real world settings. |
Knowledgeable Empowered |
| 3 | Apply principles of situational crime prevention, CPTED and security management in a real environment. |
Empowered Engaged |
| 4 | Summarise key themes of effective situationally-focused crime prevention. | Knowledgeable |
| 5 | Critical thinking and analysis of diverse sources of information |
Knowledgeable Creative and critical thinker |
| 6 | Effective written communication including logically structured work and appropriate referencing |
Empowered Ethical |
Refer to the UniSC Glossary of terms for definitions of “pre-requisites, co-requisites and anti-requisites”.
Not applicable
Not applicable
CRM104
Introduction to Criminology. Theories of crime. Standard academic, report writing and PPT presentation skills.
Not applicable
Standard Grading (GRD)
| High Distinction (HD), Distinction (DN), Credit (CR), Pass (PS), Fail (FL). |
Tutorials will include formative quizzes for early feedback.
| Delivery mode | Task No. | Assessment Product | Individual or Group | Weighting % | What is the duration / length? | When should I submit? | Where should I submit it? |
| All | 1 | Quiz/zes | Individual | 40% | 100 minutes |
Refer to Format | Online Test (Quiz) |
| All | 2 | Oral | Individual | 15% | 10 minutes |
Throughout teaching period (refer to Format) | In Class |
| All | 3 | Case Study | Individual | 45% | 2500 words |
Week 10 | Online Assignment Submission with plagiarism check |
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| Goal: | To demonstrate knowledge and understanding of governmental, community-based and situational approaches to crime prevention. The quiz in week 5 will also provide early feedback to assist you in your assessment management strategies for the remainder of the course. |
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| Format: | Online multi-choice in weeks 5 and 12 |
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| Generic Skills: | Problem solving, Organisation, Applying technologies, Information literacy |
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| Goal: | Students share in-depth learning of one case study. |
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| Product: | Oral | ||||||||||||
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| Format: | Submit: Weeks 2 - 12 Formal 10-minute presentation with Powerpoint slides in tutorial. Details will be provided early in the course. |
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| Generic Skills: | Communication, Problem solving, Organisation, Applying technologies |
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| Goal: | To apply knowledge and understanding of the content of Block B of the course: situationally based crime prevention methods, focused on risk assessment and security management processes, through a practical case study. |
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| Product: | Case Study | |||||||||||||||
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| Format: | Case study report format. The report should include an executive summary, description of site and functions, identification of threats and vulnerabilities, assessment of security strengths and weaknesses, and recommendations for improvement. Students will be required to use Cadmus as part of their submission of this task. Further details will be provided early in the course. |
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A 12-unit course will have total of 150 learning hours which will include directed study hours (including online if required), self-directed learning and completion of assessable tasks. Student workload is calculated at 12.5 learning hours per one unit.
Please note: Course information, including specific information of recommended readings, learning activities, resources, weekly readings, etc. are available on the course Canvas site– Please log in as soon as possible.
You need regular access to the resource(s) below. Many texts are available as ebooks through the Library at no additional cost.
| Required? | Author | Year | Title | Edition | Publisher |
| Required | Tim Prenzler | 2026 | Applied Crime Prevention: Theory, Practice, Evidence, Issues | 1 | Australian Academic Press |
Students will need to access a business, institution or other location to conduct their security risk assessment. Details will be provided early in the course.
Academic integrity is the ethical standard of university participation. It ensures that students graduate as a result of proving they are competent in their discipline. This is integral in maintaining the value of academic qualifications. Each industry has expectations and standards of the skills and knowledge within that discipline and these are reflected in assessment.
Academic integrity means that you do not engage in any activity that is considered to be academic fraud; including plagiarism, collusion or outsourcing any part of any assessment item to any other person. You are expected to be honest and ethical by completing all work yourself and indicating in your work which ideas and information were developed by you and which were taken from others. You cannot provide your assessment work to others. You are also expected to provide evidence of wide and critical reading, usually by using appropriate academic references.
In order to minimise incidents of academic fraud, this course may require that some of its assessment tasks, when submitted to Canvas, are electronically checked through Turnitin. This software allows for text comparisons to be made between your submitted assessment item and all other work to which Turnitin has access.
Eligibility for Supplementary Assessment
Your eligibility for supplementary assessment in a course is dependent of the following conditions applying:
(a) The final mark is in the percentage range 47% to 49.4%; and
(b) The course is graded using the Standard Grading scale
Late submissions may be penalised up to and including the following maximum percentage of the assessment task’s identified value, with weekdays and weekends included in the calculation of days late:
(a) One day: deduct 5%;
(b) Two days: deduct 10%;
(c) Three days: deduct 20%;
(d) Four days: deduct 40%;
(e) Five days: deduct 60%;
(f) Six days: deduct 80%;
(g) Seven days: A result of zero is awarded for the assessment task.
The following penalties will apply for a late submission for an online examination:
Less than 15 minutes: No penalty
From 15 minutes to 30 minutes: 20% penalty
More than 30 minutes: 100% penalty
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