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6. Situational crime prevention focuses on reducing opportunities for crime, by...

  • Building expensive middle class housing, forcing the working class to move away, thus reducing crime.
  • Organising neighbourhood watch meetings, in order to create a community bond.
  • Encouraging potential victims to 'design out' crime by investing in surveillance and security.
  • Creating secure prisons that criminals can attend.

7. Wilson & Kelling believe in which theory?

  • Rational choice
  • Broken windows
  • Weak policing
  • Viscious vandalism

8. Wilson: trying to eradicate poverty...

  • is impossible.
  • will benefit society.
  • won't majorly reduce crime.
  • will help the family.

9. Wilson & Hernstein: people born with...

  • A status that could mean that they may commit deviance.
  • A natural reason to commit crime.
  • predisposition against crime and if parents don't teach children norms and values, they may commit crime.
  • The options to commit crime, but they don't commit crime as they don't want to offend their family.

10. Hirschi's 4 bonds of attachment are attachment, commitment, involvement and what?

  • Adaption
  • Love
  • Belief
  • Acknowledgment

11. An anti-poverty scheme generating more crime is a modern example of which theorist?

  • Clarke
  • Wilson
  • Murray
  • Wilson & Hernstein

12. Which of the following is not one of Hirschi's 4 bonds of attachment?

  • Love = family and friends
  • Involvement = involved in community, would lose reputation if committed crime
  • Attachment = family
  • Commitment = lose investments

13. Environmental crime prevention: crime due to anti-social behaviour e.g.

  • Drugs being sold to other countries.
  • Vandalism or drugs being used in public.
  • Vandalism made in criminals' homes.
  • Driving vehicles through puddles, in order to spray pedestrians.

14. ECP: disorder occurs if there's little sense of community, as...

  • formal & informal social control is will usually be weak.
  • No-one minds the crime.
  • There isn't anyone to report crimes to.
  • No-one will confront the vandals.

15. Wilson also argues that many poor people...

  • don't commit crime, so poverty is not to blame.
  • are criminals, so poverty needs to be eradicated.
  • commit crime due to poverty.
  • don't experience poverty, yet still commit crime.

16. Broken windows theory links to ECP. If graffiti isn't removed,

  • the public may fight back against vandals.
  • there won't be a problem.
  • then it encourages similar deviance.
  • the area won't win town of the year.