Crime Prevention and Control Strategies

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What is the focus of situational crime prevention?

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Situational crime prevention focuses on making criminal activity less appealing to offenders and reducing opportunities for crime. It was explained by Ron Clarke in 1992.

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What are examples of situational crime prevention strategies?

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Examples include target hardening using locking doors, CCTV, security guards, traffic enforcement, and shutters.

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What are the evaluations of situational crime prevention?

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It reduces certain types of crime, focuses on opportunist crimes, ignores the roots of crime, has an inappropriate focus on CCTV, and may lead to crime displacement.

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What is the focus of environmental crime prevention?

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Environmental crime prevention is based on the 'broken windows theory' by Wilson and Kelling (1982), which suggests that signs of disorder indicate low social control and emphasizes formal control measures.

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What are examples of environmental crime prevention strategies?

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Examples include zero-tolerance policing, the Injunction to Prevent Nuisance and Annoyance (IPNA), curfews, street drinking bans, dispersal orders, and environmental improvement strategies.

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What are the evaluations of environmental crime prevention?

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Studies suggest zero tolerance policing works, but it is more expensive than situational crime prevention. It is argued that police should focus on more serious crime areas.