Funded by EDGE, CityUPI: Li, Jessica Chi-mei (SS)Period: January 2011- December 2011

TDG Project No. 6000317 PI: Dr Jessica Li (SS)

TDG Project No. 6000317 PI: Dr Jessica Li (SS)

This is the third phase of the TDG-funded project “Crime Issue”, first implemented in 2008. Similar to the first (2008-09) and second (2009-10) phases, the project’s third phase will cover a wide range of teaching and learning activities inside and outside the classroom, such as field visits, guest seminars, editorial work of a newsletter and a forum. As an improvement of the previous phases, participants of the new project will take a more active role in conveying the crime prevention message to the community. Participants will team up in collaboration with the police crime prevention unit to educate different vulnerable groups in community (e.g. elderly, juvenile delinquents as well as sex workers) about situational crime prevention techniques. Other than CityU students, community residents will also benefit from the proposed project.

TDG Project No. 6000317 PI: Dr Jessica Li (SS)

Core student participants = 40 CityU students Student participants = 100 CityU students Vulnerable groups in the community = 100

persons Newsletter readers:(a) print-out version (CityU = 1,000; Community

= 1,000)(b) Online version: 10% of the total population

(CityU = 2,000 ; Community + Universities worldwide= 2,000)

TDG Project No. 6000317 PI: Dr Jessica Li (SS)

Upon the completion of this project, students are expected to be able to:

1.describe the nature and implications of a number of key issues of criminology that are chosen for the course;2.articulate the complex social and organizational factors that underlie crime reduction efforts for the selected issues;3.demonstrate an advanced knowledge of the relevant public discourse, research literature and theoretical foundations of the issue under study; and4.communicate ideas and arguments in debates through oral presentations and in writing.

TDG Project No. 6000317 PI: Dr Jessica Li (SS)

TLA 1: Guest lectures (12 hours) TLA 2: Forum (6 hours) TLA 3: Newsletter (12 hours) TLA 4: Teaching Crime Prevention in

Community (6 hours)

TDG Project No. 6000317 PI: Dr Jessica Li (SS)

Pre-test/ post-test evaluation (for 40 participants) on the self-perceived achievement in the expected outcomes.

Qualitative analysis on students’ written feedbacks (for 40 participants)

Focus group meeting ( 6-8 members selected from the 40 participants)

Reader survey using simple-after method (600 readers of the newsletter; 10% of the total population)

TDG Project No. 6000317 PI: Dr Jessica Li (SS)

Students (Attitude, Skills, Knowledge, networks for future career)

Teacher/ PI (Expertise in activity-based learning and teaching, confidence and competence, TFQ)

Community (reducing and preventing crime)

CityU (local & global; caring and professional image; practice and research)

TDG Project No. 6000317 PI: Dr Jessica Li (SS)

Email: jessica@cityu.edu.hkExt: 8839Office: Y7300

TDG Project No. 6000317 PI: Dr Jessica Li (SS)