Chapter 6

Question 1

What are Nurturant strategies

Answer 1

employ actions and practices that attempt to prevent crime by improving the early experiences of children and adolescents.

Question 2

Protection/avoidance strategies

Answer 2

employ actions that attempt to reduce crime by changing people’s behaviour, increase supervision and surveillance, and increase incapacitation.

Question 3

Deterrence strategies

Answer 3

employ actions that attempt to curb criminal behaviour by increasing the certainty and severity of punishment.

Question 4

Crime Prevention through Environmental Design

Answer 4

This approach suggests that changes to a community’s physical environment in can change or reduce criminal activity in that area. Proponents of this approach believe that there is a direct relationship between the behaviour of people and their surroundings.

Question 5

Legislative Strategies

Answer 5

Young Offenders Act, 
gun control legislation
 drug offence legislation
 dangerous and long-term offender legislation
 conditional sentence reforms

Question 6

Human trafficking

Answer 6

Human trafficking is the forced displacement of individuals for exploitation (crime dramas have highlighted this type of activity, in which women from one or more countries are smuggled into another country and forced into prostitution).

Question 7

Trafficking in human organs

Answer 7

Advances in medicine that allow people improved health and longer life through organ replacement has greatly increased the value of viable human organs. Unfortunately, the demand for organs exceeds the current supply.

Question 8

Cyber crime

Answer 8

The term cyber crime refers to a wide range of crimes committed my means of computer technology. This category is an ever-increasing area of concern as computer technology continues to develop. This category of crime is extremely diverse; it includes property related offences, such as identity theft and credit card fraud; serious personal injury offences related to internet luring, kidnapping, and sexual assault; and corporate espionage, resulting from the use of computer viruses, hacking, and other acts intended to interrupt or impair the functioning of a business.

Question 9

tools that have evolved as methods to identify individuals are

Answer 9

biometric technology
finger scanning,
ris scanning, hand geometry
yping patterns

Question 10

Globalization

Answer 10

the act or process of globalizing : the state of being globalized; especially : the development of an increasingly integrated global economy marked especially by free trade, free flow of capital, and the tapping of cheaper foreign labor markets