Crime prevention Flashcards
What is situation crime prevention
Ron Clarke (1992) describes SCP as reducing the opportunities for crime
What are the 3 measures of situational crime prevention ?
Directed at specific crimes
Managing or altering the immediate environment of the crime
Increasing the efforts and risks of committing crimes and reducing the rewards
What article is Environmental crime prevention associated with ?
Wilson and Kelling’s article Broken windows
What does broken windows stand for ?
various signs of disorder and lack of concern for others that are found in some neighbourhoods like undue:
Noise
Grafitti
Littering
Vandalism
What is zero tolerance policing ?
Wilson and Kelling’s key idea is that disorder and the absence of controls leads to crime
What is social and community crime prevention ?
Strategies attempts to tackle the root causes of offending