The discussion assignment provides a forum for discussing relevant topics for this week on the basis of the course competencies covered. The Process of Critical Inquiry , Variables, Ethics in Social Science Research
For this assignment, you will submit five research questions on five topics that could be used in a survey on fear of crime that you could give to people in their neighborhood.
In your response, include answers to the following:
Describe each topic.
Explain the intended approach toward each research question for each topic.
Describe the ways in which these questions will support your survey analysis.
Describe your own fear of crime. How often are you fearful of crime? What are some precautions you have taken, or why have you not taken some precautions? What do you believe causes or drives your current level of fear of crime?
Prompt 2: In your own words, compare and contrast primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention. Which do you believe is most important and why?
Describe your own fear of crime. How often are you fearful of crime? What are some precautions you have taken, or why have you not taken some precautions? What do you believe causes or drives your current level of fear of crime?
Prompt 2: In your own words, compare and contrast primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention. Which do you believe is most important and why?
Fear of crime can lead to increased anxiety, social withdrawal, and many other outcomes. One of the goals of community policing is to reduce the fear of crime by building positive relationships with the people in an officer’s neighborhood and town. Distrust of law enforcement is one area that we covered in this Module, and studies have found that the level of trust relates to many factors, but race appears to be one of them. Community policing also hopes to tackle the issue of distrust by the strong relationships it seeks to make between officers and community members.
Your goal for this blog is to come up with real, actionable solutions that can address fear of crime and distrust of law enforcement that can appear in communities of color. Community policing is a theory – so don’t cite this – but you can find specific things that have been done under the umbrella of community policing, broken windows policing, evidence-based policing, etc, that target these very real issues.
How can people who fear law enforcement and crime have these anxieties eased? How can law enforcement help?
Blogs must be between 300-400 words and use APA citation style when citing sources.
Points to Include in your Answer:
1. Official measures of crime.
2. Measuring victimization
3. Defining and Measuring Fear of Crime.
4. Fear and Demographics
5. Divergent Findings and Explanations
Topic: Discuss the Defining and Modeling of Crime Prevention
Points to Include:
6. Defining Crime Prevention
7. Crime Prevention Model and Alternative Models
8. Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Crime Prevention
