Making the situation more difficult for the offender so they avoid the target.
Situational approaches; making the target more difficult; this is known as 'target hardening' this could involve CCTV, post coding goods,locks and alarms
a lot of violence used to happen in pubs,so they introduced plastic cups and gave pubs more room to prevent collisions.
Situational approaches; favoured by Right Realists, who focus on crime prevention over catching offenders.
CRITICS
they ignore the social causes of crime so not attacking the origins of the problem.
target hardening just forces criminals to go elsewhere and choose 'softer targets' ; this is known as DISPLACEMENT THEORY
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