crime prevention victiisaytion Flashcards

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Environmental crime prevention - broken window theory wilson

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absense of control leads to crime
eg, NYC suways and grafitti. When zero tolerance strateigy found that many had wrrants for outstanding crimes . lead to a decrease in murder

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Social and community crime provention

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remove the root causes. eg, Perry pre school, michigan- supplimentory schooling was intoduces most was w/c pupils and received educational support ect
this decreased the reliant on welfare and benifts
for every 1$ invested it saved $17 in welfare/prison
goverments look for immediant short term and this was too exoensive short term

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There are said to be 3 justifications for punishment;

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deterrance; thachers short sharp shock
Rehabilitation; fixing them
incapivation; three strikes and ur out (protecting public)

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Functionalists like Durkeim say that the role of punishment;

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reinforces social solidarity and in the past used it to stick together.
now individuals are more specialised
crime distrupts the equaliberum thus punishment helps restore.

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New right and right realists say we need to reduce opportunities for crime

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Burguler will weigh up pros and cons
target hardening like light on, cctv ect will reduce those chances, theyre rational
contrasts with root cause theorists
we need to focus on immediate situation

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Felson- deign crime out. Port authority examples

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homeless poepl would bath in sinks, so they shrank the sinks therefore the homless men did not feel the need to stay around that area anymore. you can “design crime out of a community”

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AO3 of felson design crime out

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this causes dicplacemt like
temperial , spatial , functaional, tactical
works but doesnt stop crime.

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