Crime Prevention and Control

Question 1

What is situational crime Prevention?

Answer 1

A pre-emptive approach that relies, not on improving society or its institution but simply reducing opportunity for crime.
An example is ‘target-hardening’ - involves the effort a burglar needs to put in and increased CCTV and security guards.

Question 2

What is environmental crime Prevention?

Answer 2

Regionally and wider problem area focused.
Examples of it are zero-tolerance policing in a city with increasing crime rates.

Question 3

What is community and social strategies?

Answer 3

Working with offenders or ex-offenders in the local community in order to prevent re-offending.

Question 4

What did Gill and Loveday say?

Answer 4

CCTV does not deter many criminals as they do not see it as a threat.

Question 5

What does Koskela (feminist) say?

Answer 5

CCTV is just an extension of the ‘male gaze’

Question 6

What does Mathiesen say?

Answer 6

Synopticon - everyone is now watching everyone - people recording people with phones and dashcams

Question 7

What is the criticism of situational crime Prevention?

Answer 7

• Tends to focus only on small petty crime and ignores crimes which are more costly and more harmful
• Assumes criminals make rational decisions, unlikely in crimes where the criminals are under the influence of drugs and alcohol
• Ignores the root of crime

Question 8

What are the criticisms of environmental crime prevention?

Answer 8

Zero tolerance in New York reducing crime rates my not be true as In New York living standards rose, unemployment shrank and there was less of a use of drugs

Question 9

What are the criticisms of social and community crime prevention?

Answer 9

Like situational crime prevention, it focuses on smaller, more petty crimes committed by criminals