pre-emptive approach relies on reducing opportunities for crime. Mange or alter the environment. Increase risks of committing crime and reducing the rewards
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What is 'target hardening'?
includes locking doors, security guards, re-shaping the environment to 'design crime out' of an area
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Rational Choice Theory
the idea that criminals act rationally, weighing up the risks and rewards of a crime opportunity
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What may SCP do?
simply displace crime, moving it to different places, times, victims, types or crime etc
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What might it explain?
opportunistic petty street crime but not white-collar, corporate and state crime. the assumption that criminals make rational calculations may not be true or violent and drug-related crime
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Evaluation
sometimes this approach does more than simply displacing crime or deviance; e.g. changing from coal gas to less toxic natural gas reduced total suicides- not just those from gassing
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Card 2
Front
What is 'target hardening'?
Back
includes locking doors, security guards, re-shaping the environment to 'design crime out' of an area
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