Crime Prevention And Control

Question 1

Situational crime prevention

Answer 1

This means we need to alter the immidiate environment or increase the effort and risks of commit crime and reducing the reward. Target hardening measure like locking doors increases the effort a burglar needs to make. This relates to rational choice theory meaning we need to make the punishment of the crime outweigh the reward.

Question 2

Evaluation of situational crime prevention

Answer 2

This doesn’t reduce to crime but Instead leads to displacement. A crackdown on crimes in the new York subways just lead to the being committed on the streets instead

Question 3

Environmental crime prevention

Answer 3

This links the the broken windows solution which states that a crime must be punished immidiately and effectively to deter other people from committing. For example cleaning graffiti immediately led to a decline in people vandalising

Question 4

Evaluation of environmental crime prevention

Answer 4

This ignore the root causes of crime such as poverty or poor socialisation

Question 5

Social and community crime prevention

Answer 5

This emphasises the potential offender and their social context to remover the conditions that predispose offenders to crime. This is longer term and tackles root causes such as poverty, unemployment or poor housing. For example free school meals, sure start centres

Question 6

Evaluation of social and community crime prevention

Answer 6

There is evidence to support these measures but their implementation would be very expensive and ut would take a long time to see effects. The politician which introduces this wouldn’t even still be in office to see its progression