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1
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What is crime prevention?

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Any pre-emptive intervention intended to block or reduce the risk of a criminal act occurring or the onset of criminal behaviour within an individual.

2
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Crime prevention is ___, not ___.

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Proactive, retroactive.

3
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What does it mean when it is said that crime prevention is proactive?

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Tries to anticipate and prevent crime, rather than deal with it after the fact.

4
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Crime prevention involves a problem-oriented approach that stresses ___ and ___.

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Flexibility, individualism.

5
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Crime prevention emphasizes citizen involvement and responsibility as opposed to ___ ___.

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State control.

6
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Meaningful partnerships are key to ___ ___.

A

Crime prevention.

7
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Who is central to crime prevention?

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The community.

8
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Crime prevention prioritizes ___ social control over ___ social control.

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Informal, formal.

9
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Crime prevention focuses on ___ victims and offenders.

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Potential.

10
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Conventional CJS aims to control individuals through punishments to change the individual, while crime prevention is about working to…

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Improve the functioning of that individual.

11
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Conventional CJS aims to control individuals through punishments to change the individual, while crime prevention is about working to…

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Improve the functioning of that individual.

12
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What are the 4 dominant crime prevention approaches?

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  1. Crime Prevention through Social Development (CPSD).
  2. Situational Crime Prevention (SCP).
  3. Community Crime Prevention (CCP).
  4. Community and Problem-Oriented Policing.
13
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What crime prevention approach focuses on root causes?

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CPSD (Crime Prevention through Social Development).

14
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What is the main focus of CPSD?

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Root causes. Focus on risks and mitigating them, but at the same time strengthening and enhancing protective factors. Develops risk-focused interventions; enhances protective factors.

15
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What are examples of social risks that are remedied in CPSD?

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Poverty, low education, poor role models.

16
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What are examples of personal risks that are remedied in CPSD?

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Learning disabilities, anger management issues, mental health problems.

17
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What are protective factors?

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Implement things that will encourage good health and well-being.

18
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Give some examples of protective factors.

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  • Pro-social influences.
  • Healthy relationships with parents and teachers.
  • Healthy neighbourhoods.
19
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Give some examples of protective factors.

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  • Pro-social influences.
  • Healthy relationships with parents and teachers.
  • Healthy neighbourhoods.
20
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What crime prevention approach focuses on opportunities?

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SCP (Situational Crime Prevention).

21
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What is the main idea behind situational crime prevention?

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Try to reduce opportunities for crime. Environmental design.

22
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Give examples of how environmental design decreases crime.

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Keeping areas free of litter or graffiti, promoting use of public spaces like parks, having good lighting, having locked security gates.

23
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What are the 3 hypothesis related to crime?

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  1. Crime involves motivated offenders and potential victims coming together at a particular time or place (Routine Activities Theory).
  2. Crime is opportunistic.
  3. Criminal behaviour involves a rational decision-making process (cost-benefit analysis).
24
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What is Routine Activities Theory?

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Crime involves motivated offenders and potential victims coming together at a particular time or place.

25
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SCP aims to increase the ___ required by the offender by installing better locks, with better lighting, or with fewer places to hide.

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Effort.

26
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SCP can also increase the ___ to the offender for detection and apprehension.

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Risk.

27
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SCP can also involve reducing the ___ for offenders.

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Rewards.

28
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SCP can also involve removing people’s ___ to commit crimes.

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Excuses.

29
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Stores prominently displaying signs outlining punishment is an example of using ___ to reduce excuses.

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SCP.

30
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SCP can also reduce ___ by reducing people’s levels of frustration or stress that lead to crime.

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Provocations.

31
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What are the 2 models within Community Crime Prevention?

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Community Defence and Community Development .

32
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What is Community Defence?

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Motivating and mobilizing people to have a stake in their community- to make them care what happens in their community.

33
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What is the most well known example of Community Defence?

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Neighbourhood Watch.

34
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What is Community Development?

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Helping to create healthy communities. Promotes the physical, social, and socioeconomic development of an neighbourhood.

35
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What is collective efficacy?

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Creating a sense of responsibility and community.

36
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What crime prevention model utilizes collective efficacy?

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CCP.

37
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Why does collective efficacy decrease crime?

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People will not be tolerant of rule breakers because they have a stake in that community.

38
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Why does collective efficacy decrease crime?

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People will not be tolerant of rule breakers because they have a stake in that community.

39
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Which crime prevention model utilizes problem solving?

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Community and Problem-Oriented Policing.

40
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___ aims to protect the safety and security of the community through partnerships.

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Community and Problem-Oriented Policing.

41
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In the Community and Problem-Oriented Policing model, the ___ identifies problems, and work with ___ to come up with solutions.

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Community, police.

42
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Which crime prevention model is about informal social control, and community managing (not the CJS)?

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Community and Problem-Oriented Policing.

43
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Which crime-prevention model involves the problem-oriented approach?

A

Community and Problem-Oriented Policing.

44
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If you do not focus on problems, it is just…

A

Public relations.

45
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When implementing the Community and Problem-Oriented Policing model, you must be open to ___, and evaluating ___.

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What is working and what is not, the effectiveness of your strategies.