Crime Control and Prevention
- Created by: hannahmoore
- Created on: 20-05-15 09:43
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- Crime Control and Prevention
- Realism concerned with finding solutions
- Left Realism- find solutions for the causes of crime (primary)
- Right Realism find soliutions for preventing crime (secondary)
- Situational Crime Prevention
- Reducing opportunities by designing out crime
- Use of CCTV to catch or deter a criminal
- Environmental Crime Prevention
- Crime caused by anti social behaviour
- Wilson
- Broken Windows- if behaviour is tolerated then an area deteriorates
- Any sign of crime must be fixed immediately
- Social and Community Crime Prevention
- Address the social and economic conditions
- Among young and ethnic minority groups
- Urban crime is response to legitimate opportunities
- Use community policing strategies
- Prison seen as the best punishment
- UK has overflowing prison population
- Mathews-prison has no consideration of rehabilitation
- Soloman- people get imprisoned for minor offences
- Recidivism (re-offending) rates suggest prison doesn't deter
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