Your expertise has been recognised internationally by an Australian City Council interested in obtaining your services.
The Melville City Council in Perth, Western Australia has engaged you as a crime prevention consultant (assume this
is post COVID-19). The Council desires your services because of their concerns about the rising number of
complaints of crime in the Council area. They have concerns in regards crime at and near public transport locations
(e.g., car parking facilities, pedestrian walkways, train platforms, and small retailers). Issues of concern have included,
assaults/sexual assaults, vandalism/graffiti, bag snatching, car theft, theft from cars including damage to vehicles
being stolen from. Select one (or all) of these concerns, develop a crime prevention plan you can pitch to the Council
drawing upon the material covered in this unit.
provide a solution. You DO NOT have to prove crime has occurred by collecting statistics or crime reports.
Your critical response to this plan should draw on your knowledge about crime patterns, crime prevention theory, and
the capacity to modify crime opportunities. It is expected that you will draw heavily on empirical literature and applied
criminological research to formulate and substantiate your argument. Your response will include a minimum of 15
references. Given the applied nature of this research and the wide-range of sources of information that are available,
it is acceptable to use government reports (e.g., the Australian Institute of Criminology reports) and evaluations
undertaken by government agencies (e.g., finalists in both the Goldstein Awards and Tilley Awards) in addition to
peer-reviewed academic sources (journal articles or edited books). Unpublished web pages are not acceptable
sources of information. Neither is the lecture material.
your work, your position will need to be justified and the literature you cite to demonstrate the veracity of your claim
will need to be explained.