| CODE | CRM3013 | |||||||||
| TITLE | Risk and Security Management | |||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 03 - Years 2, 3, 4 in Modular Undergraduate Course | |||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 6 | |||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | |||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Criminology | |||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit introduces students to the concept of risk analysis and security management. Risk assessment is the strategic monitoring and upgrading of the existing crime prevention strategies. There is no panacea is foreseeing and preventing security risk and this study-unit explores this aspect in applied crime management both in the streets and in the work place. This study-unit is important to understand how to plan and monitor an achievable and sustainable security risk management. Study-unit Aims: The main aim of the study-unit is to teach students how to apply risk and security techniques to practice. Students will be thought techniques used in strategic planning to prevent crime. Finally, the study-unit aims to instruct students to think from the offender's perspective through observation and analysis and apply the appropriate security measures. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Explain and analyze of the rationale of the risk management process - Demonstrate how the objective evaluation of risk and security measures can be applied in the work place - Analyze how security risk assessment has become important in preventing crime in different situations. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Gain the necessary skills to observe, report and analyze observation the possible security risk and recommend appropriate and feasible solutions in controlling crime occurrence. - Report how the the learned knowledge can be applied to a chosen scenario whereby it is expected that the students to apply the theories of crime prevention and security management into practice. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: - ASIS (2003). The general security risk assessment guideline. Virginia: ASIS International. - Broder, James F. (2006). Risk analysis and the security survey. UK: Elsevier Science. - Crawford, A. (1998). Crime prevention and community safety. London: Longman. - Gill, M. (1994). Crime at work: Studies in security and crime prevention. Leicester: Perpetuity Press. - Holmes, Andrew (2002). Risk management. Great Britain: Capstone Publishing. - Hughes, G., McLaughlin, E. and Muncie, J. (2002). Crime Prevention and community safety. London: Sage. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | |||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Trevor Calafato |
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