CRJ 7001 The Science and Practice of Public Safety
3 hours
This course introduces a high-level, problem-oriented approach to producing public safety. It addresses the two major traditional ways we have sought to produce public safety – prevention and enforcement – and analyzes their limits. It frames a fundamentally different way of going about public safety; introduces core, powerful intervention frameworks; describes simple but powerful policy analytic tools; illustrates approaches to researching and analyzing substantive public safety problems and designing interventions; and addresses central issues in implementation and project management. The course is designed to build the skills necessary to design and implement effective public safety interventions that are evidence based.