The criminal justice system - crime

Crime – CJS
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Situational crime prevention: How the potential victims and criminals come together
Clarke- target hardening. A pre-emptive approach that relies on reducing opportunity for crime, most crime is opportunistic. Evaluation: port authority bus terminal

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Environmental crime prevention (right realists): Formal (police) and informal social control which clamps down on antisocial behaviour and prevents an area from deteriorating. Wilson and Kelling - broken window theory. Evaluation: Levitt and Dubner found the correlation to be a coincidence

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Social and community: Focuses on offenders and the social context which encourages offenders and non-offenders. Risk factors correlated with low education and parental conflict - Intervention programs included preschool programs. Evaluation: the method is expensive

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Surveillance: Used as a deterrent to ensure justice - The government relies heavily on surveillance to see how potential criminals behave – this could lead to people being scapegoats for crimes, Evaluation: the technique is flawed – a London attacker was reported many times, but the person didn’t receive any extra surveillance.

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The chivalry thesis: The idea that women are less likely to be prosecuted for their offences is known as the…