Situational Crime Prevention
- Created by: georgiamckibbin
- Created on: 12-03-18 19:55
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- Preventing Crime
- Situational Crime Prevention
- A pre-emptive approach that relies on reducing opportunities for crime
- Directed at specific crimes
- Manages the environment of the crime
- Increased risk of crime with decreased rewards
- Target Hardening
- Measures such as
- locking doors and windows
- CCTV
- Measures such as
- Rational choice theory of crime
- Right Realist Approach
- Clarke- most crime is opportunistic so there is a need to reduce the opportunity for crime
- Felson (2002) The Port Authority Bus Terminal New York
- Poorly designed and provided opportunity for deviant conduct
- for example rough sleepers
- Reshaping the environment to "design crimes out reduced criminal activity
- for example large sinks were replaced by small hand basins so homeless people didn't bathe in them
- Poorly designed and provided opportunity for deviant conduct
- Evaluation
- Displacement
- It doesn't reduce crime, it simply displaces it
- Chaiken et al (1974) found that a crack down on subway robberies in New York merely displaced them to the streets above
- It doesn't reduce crime, it simply displaces it
- Displacement
- Environmental Crime Prevention
- Wilson and Kelling
- "Broken windows" stands for the signs of disorder and lack of concern for others that are found in some neighnourhoods
- Leaving broken windows unrepaired shows tolerance by sending a signal that nobody cares
- Absence of formal and informal social control
- Police turn a blind eye to petty crime while respected members of the community feel intimidated and powerless
- Without action, the situation deteriorates, tipping the neighbourhood into a spiral of decline
- Respectable people move out and the area becomes a magnet for deviants
- Situational Crime Prevention
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