Crime Prevention Method

Question 1

3 main explanation of crime prevention?

Answer 1

1)Situational crime prevention
2)Environmental crime prevention
3)Social and community crime prevention

Question 2

What is Situational crime prevention?

Answer 2

approach that simply reducing opportunity for crime

Question 3

What are Situational crime prevention Strategies?

Answer 3

•Target hardening-such as through bars and bolts on windows,alarm system, park benches that prevent homeless sleepers
-Pease “Bars bolts and barrier”
•Hostile architecture-Architecture stops people from loitering

Question 4

Evaluation situational prevention?

Answer 4

•Displacement-doesn’t reduce crime it just moves to different area
•Doesn’t deal with corporate or white collar crime
•Unfairly targets the WC who can’t afford the hardening system

Question 5

What is Environmental Crime prevention?

Answer 5

Improving local area and deal with activity such as vandalism

Question 6

What Environmental crime prevention Strategies?

Answer 6

Zero tolerance policing-deal with small petty crime which will prevent the movement into more serious crime

Question 7

Evaluation Environmental crime prevention?

Answer 7

•Deals with the symptoms not cause
•Target WC people and street crime rather than,corporate or white collar crime
•Displacement theory

Question 8

What is Social and community crime prevention?

Answer 8

Dealing with the social inequalities that lead to crime then it will reduce the crime rate.

Question 9

What is Social and community crime prevention Strategies?

Answer 9

•Youth groups and community centre which will help create a sense of community Parenting groups help with socialisation

Question 10

Evaluation Social and community crime prevention

Answer 10

•Assumes value consensus within a community and ignores issues such as relative deprivation and institutional racism which can limit effectiveness of community and social policy
•Doesn’t deal with corporate or white collar crime