UNIVERSITY OF BAGUIO

GRADUATE SCHOOL
Gen. Luna Rd., Baguio City, Philippines

I. COURSE NUMBER : MSCJSS 2

II. COURSE TITLE : CRIME INTERVENTION AND MANAGEMENT

III. COURSE DESCRIPTION : This course is designed to provide an exploration of various

methods of crime prevention programs – community crime prevention programs and
criminal justice system approaches. The relevant theory and research related to
neighborhood efforts at crime prevention, community policing, school crime prevention, and
other situational prevention measures will be explored critically. This course aims to provide
a foundation for a better understanding of the objectives of various crime prevention efforts,
as well as the proven effectiveness of these various strategies.

IV. LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

At the end of the session participants will be able to:

1. Distinguish and discuss primary, secondary and tertiary prevention strategies.

2. Identify current gaps in knowledge about crime prevention strategies in the U.S. and in
comparison with the Philippines
3. Discuss the impact of crime prevention strategies on crime and victimization in the world in
general and in the Philippines in particular
4. Identify what prevention strategies are most promising for crime prevention.
5. Identify what prevention strategies are least promising for crime prevention.
6. Identify what areas need more information and research for effective crime prevention
efforts.

V. COURSE OUTLINE:

The Course shall deal and focus, but not limited to the following categories and specific laws in the
administration of justice.

1. University of Baguio, Mission, Vision and Objectives:

1. Introduction
 Evidence-Based Crime Prevention in Preventing Crime: What Works for Children, Offenders,
Victims and Places
 Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn’t, What’s Promising.
2. Crime and the fear of crime, crime prevention, & evaluation and crime prevention
3. Contexts and factors associated with serious violent crime and the Effective
intervention strategies to reduce serious violent crime
4. Risk management, prevention and inter-agency coordination for reducing violent
crime
5. The physical environment and Neighborhood crime prevention
 Defensible space
 Environment and crime in the inner city does vegetation reduce crime. Environment and
behavior,
 Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED): a review and modern
bibliography. Property management.
 Abandoned buildings: Magnets for crime.
 Guardianship for crime prevention: A critical review of the literature. Crime, law and social
change.
6. Displacement and diffusion
 Assessing the extent of crime displacement and diffusion of benefits: a review of situational
crime prevention evaluations
 Crime radiators or crime absorbers? A comparison of internal and external levels of theft.
7. The mass media and crime
 The Pros and Cons of publicity campaigns as a crime control tactic.
 Public information programming and family violence: Lessons from the mass media crime
prevention experience.
 Enhancing citizen participation and solving serious crime: A national evaluation of Crime
Stoppers programs. Crime & Delinquency.
 Capturing crime, criminals and the public’s imagination: Assembling Crime Stoppers and
CCTV surveillance. Crime, Media, Culture.
8. General deterrence
 General deterrent effects of police patrol in crime “hot spots”: A randomized, controlled trial.
 Cop’s and community: street level Leadership in Community Based Policing
 Defiance, deterrence, and irrelevance: A theory of the criminal sanction. Journal of research
in Crime and Delinquency.
9. Prediction for secondary prevention and situational crime prevention
 The prediction and prevention of violence in pubs and clubs.
 Situational crime prevention: Its theoretical basis and practical scope.
 Situational crime prevention and its discontents: rational choice theory versus the ‘culture of
now’.
 The influence of street networks on the patterning of property offenses.
10. Partnerships for crime prevention
 Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn’t, What’s Promising.
 National evaluation of Weed and Seed.
 Problem-oriented policing, deterrence, and youth violence: An evaluation of Boston's
Operation Ceasefire.
 Confronting gangs: Crime and community.
 G-Dog and the homeboys: Father Greg Boyle and the gangs of East Los Angeles.
11. Drugs, crime and crime prevention
 Drug courts and recidivism: The results of an evaluation using two comparison groups and
multiple indicators of recidivism.
 A systematic review of drug court effects on recidivism.
 Life skills training: Empirical findings and future directions.
 Project DARE: no effects at 10- year follow-up.
12. The school and crime prevention
 School Based Crime Prevention (https://www.ncjrs.gov/works/)
 Preventing anti-social behavior in the schools.
 School climate predictors of school disorder: Results from a national study of delinquency
prevention in schools.
 Bullying Prevention Program.
13. Specific deterrence and incapacitation and Rehabilitation; Prisoner reentry
 Evidence-based corrections: Identifying what works. Crime & Delinquency
 Assessing Correctional Rehabilitation: Policy, Practice, and Prospects.
 The Minneapolis domestic violence experiment.
 An outcome evaluation of a restorative justice alternative to incarceration.
 But They All Come Back: Facing The Challenges of Prisoner Reentry.
14. Some closing thoughts on crime prevention and the future
 Facing The Challenges of Prisoner Reentry.
 Science, Politics, and Crime Prevention: Toward a New Crime Policy.
 Cures that harm: Unanticipated outcomes of crime prevention programs.
 Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn’t, What’s Promising. Washington DC: National
Institute of Justice, US Department of Justice.
 VI. REQUIREMENTS OF THE COURSE:

Every Student shall comply with the following basic requirements for the completion of the Course:
1. Complete attendance
2. Individual report
3. Reaction paper/ research assignment/quiz
4. Class public lecture/seminar/symposium
5. Compiled reports and academic papers
6. Midterm and final examinations

VII. REFERENCES: BOOKS, MAGAZINES AND INTERNET

Prepared by:

Gerardo K Tumbaga, Sr. LLB, Ph. D. Crim.

Faculty, Graduate School

Approved:

Dr. Charesma Grace K. Lud-ayen, Ph. D.

Dean, Graduate School