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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.