CRIM2006/CRIM6006 - Young People and Crime: Developmental Criminology and its Discontents

Around the world, the vast majority of crime and antisocial behaviour is committed by young people.   This course will introduce students to developmental criminology as a foundation for understanding the causes and correlates of youth offending and antisocial behaviour across the life-course. In doing so, the course  will review leading theories and etiological causes of youth offending and antisocial behaviour, with an eye towards how this research may inform crime reduction policies and prevention strategies (i.e., evidenced-based policies and practices).    A major component of this course will be understanding how  theories and policies covered in this course apply to the significant and ongoing debate in Australia regarding how to best respond to youth offending through policy and the juvenile justice system.

https://programsandcourses.anu.edu.au/2023/course/CRIM2006

https://programsandcourses.anu.edu.au/2023/course/CRIM6006

SOCR8202 - Using Data to Answer Policy Questions and Evaluate Policy

This course will provide students with a range of analytical techniques that can be used to answer policy and service delivery questions and how to measure the impact of policy. It will cover four key aspects of policy evaluations
- Causation: Did the program or policy have a direct impact on the outcome or outcomes of interest?
- Attribution: What was it about the program or policy that led to that impact?
- Implementation: What can be learned about how was the program or policy delivered?
- Documentation: How can key aspects of the evaluation be reported to an academic and policy audience?

https://programsandcourses.anu.edu.au/2023/course/SOCR8202