Workshop Overview

DAY ONE

Workshop Introduction

Welcome

Workshop overview: goals, schedule, format, pedagogy, etc.

Background of Dr. Stephen Schneider

Introduction to and Overview of Crime Prevention

Definitions and Descriptions

Origins of crime prevention (critiques of the criminal justice system)

Crime prevention vs. the criminal justice system

Problem-oriented approach

Case study: City of London Social Welfare Office

Dominant crime prevention approaches: Overview

Major institutions through which crime prevention is delivered (family, schools, “place” community, labour market)

Exercise: Crime prevention institutions

Lunch

Crime Prevention through Social Development

Introduction and overview

Theoretical assumptions: Criminality as the product of one’s social environment

Exercise: Goodfellas video – Identify factors that put Henry Hill at risk

CPSD Goals/Approaches: Overview

Factors influencing CPSD interventions

Family-based interventions and programs 

School-based programs

CPSD principles

Comprehensive Case Study: Saint Mary’s University PALS Program

DAY TWO

Situational Crime Prevention and CPTED

Introduction and overview

Assumptions of crime causation underlying SCP

SCP Principles: Increase the effort, increase the risk, reduce the rewards 

Reducing opportunity by reinforcing or modifying the behaviour of potential victims

Critiques of SCP

Case Studies

Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design

Introduction and overview

Theories of crime causation underlying CPTED

The theory of CPTED: An overview

Essential CPTED strategies (target hardening, surveillance, access control, hierarchy of space, activity support, territoriality/defensible space, location/environment)

Case studies

Exercise 1: SCP and CPTED (True/False questions)

Safety audits

Exercise 2: Walk around at lunch and observe physical and built environment

Lunch

Community Crime Prevention

Introduction and overview

Community Mobilization Model

Community Development Model

Crime and crime prevention in socially disadvantaged neighbourhoods

Exercise 1: Strategic problem-solving

Exercise 2: Comprehensive crime prevention planning: The Downtown Eastside (Vancouver)

DAY THREE

Community and Problem-Oriented Policing

Overview and introduction

A brief history of policing in Western societies

The theoretical foundations of community and problem-oriented policing

Community and problem-oriented policing principles and strategies

Case studies

Restorative Justice

Introduction and overview

Underlying assumptions & philosophy of alternative justice approaches

Principles and strategies of restorative justice

The restorative justice case management process

Case Study: Youth Justice Committees in Ontario

Video: Communities in Conflict

Lunch

Government and Crime Prevention

Role of governments in crime prevention

Principles of government involvement in crime prevention

Case Study: Vancouver Neighbourhood Integrated Service Team

Predicting and Preventing Crime in Alberta

Introduction and overview

The importance of  predictive, problem-oriented approaches at local and provincial (government policy and program) level

Exercise: Identify trend (social, economic, etc.), crime implications, and most appropriate crime prevention intervention (emphasizing government policies and programs)