Crime and Deviance

Question 1

What are the 3 approaches to crime prevention?

Answer 1

1. Situational Crime Prevention
2. Envirnmental Crime Prevention
3. Social and Community Crime Prevention

Question 2

What is Situational Crime Prevention based on?

Answer 2

Rational choice theory
Cohen and Felson’s routine activity theory

Question 3

What are the approaches to Situational Crime Prevention?

Answer 3

1. Target hardening
2. Desinging out

Question 4

What is Environmental Crime Prevention associated with?

Answer 4

Right Realists
(Wilson and Kelling’s Broken Window Theory)

Question 5

What are the 2 main methods of Environmental Crime Control?

Answer 5

1. Zero tolerance
2. ASBO’s

Question 6

What does Bauman say about Situational Crime Prevention?

Answer 6

It would lead to a “fortress city” where people wouldn’t dare to leave as they are controlled and safe

Question 7

What is target hardening?

Answer 7

Making crime harder to commit through the use of window locks, shutters, CCTV

Question 8

What is designing out?

Answer 8

Making it physically harder to commit crime through sloped seats, spikes, anti-climb paint