Crime Prevention Methods
- Created by: ecotts
- Created on: 03-04-18 16:25
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- Types of Crime Prevention Methods
- Social
- places the emphasis on the community and informal social controls surrounding potential offenders
- it removes the conditions that incline people towards crime in the first place
- such as poverty and social marginalisation
- it removes the conditions that incline people towards crime in the first place
- Perry Pre School Experiment
- children that were give then attention and care from home visits were less likely to commit
- at the age of 27 the group that had these home visits had 1/2 less arrests than those that didnt
- Critisms
- Although Perry Pre-school showed that treating the cause of crime worked well
- It would be too expensive to implement
- Although Perry Pre-school showed that treating the cause of crime worked well
- places the emphasis on the community and informal social controls surrounding potential offenders
- Environmental
- focus on improving the environment in which people live- broken window
- It relies on environmental improvement strategy and zero tolerance policing
- Wilson + Kelling
- Broken Window; if the environment is not taken care of, you won't take care of it further disorder and crime
- Critsicms
- in the 1st year of the zero tolerance policy in NYC crime fell by 50%
- However there was an extra 7,000 police officers meaning more money was needed to pay them
- in the 1st year of the zero tolerance policy in NYC crime fell by 50%
- focus on improving the environment in which people live- broken window
- Situational
- Relies on reducing opportunities for come to take place
- you increase the efforts, difficulty and risks in order to prevent crime
- Offenders way up pros and cons through Rational Choice Theory
- Cornish + Clarke
- Making targets harder by having signs such as beware of the Dog help stop buglers
- Criticism
- It doesn't pay enough attention to catching/ punishing offenders to deter them
- it doesn't take the route of the crime making it difficult to develop way to reduce crime
- Relies on reducing opportunities for come to take place
- Social
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