Environmental Criminology and Crime Prevention aim to prevent crime, not to cure offenders
or reform society.
It is based on three contingent propositions:
• Crime is best understood as an interaction between the offender and the immediate
environment.
• Crime is therefore patterned according to the distribution of criminogenic environments
• These locations are the logical targets for interventions to prevent and control crime.
(Routine activity theory, Situational crime prevention, Crime prevention through environmental design, Crime pattern theory, Geometry of crime and Crime pattern theory.)

What can be done to stop physical, emotional, and sexual abuse if it is already occurring in other households, and what can be done to prevent it from happening in the first place?

What is the doctrine of sovereign immunity? To what extent are today’s correctional officers shielded from civil lawsuits brought by inmates?

Describe and discuss the rehabilitative programs for female and male offenders. Describe and discuss female versus male offenders’ recidivism.

Discuss the features that are offered by GIS systems such as ArcGIS, Hunchlab, and Maptitude that are used by police in crime mapping. What are the pros and cons, and analyze which vendors could be the most useful to a crime analyst for producing crime analysis products for their clients.