Crime control and prevention

Question 1

Situational crime prevention

Answer 1

Pre-emptive approach that aims to make it harder to commit crime by designing out crime

e.g More cctv and police

Question 2

EVAL - situational crime prevention

Answer 2

Displaces crime to other areas

Question 3

Environmental crime prevention

Answer 3

Improving the local area and dealing with low level criminal activity

e.g zero tolerance policy

Question 4

EVAL - environmental crime prevention

Answer 4

Deals with the symptoms of crime rather then the root cause

Question 5

Social and community crime prevention

Answer 5

Left realist approach, suggests that dealing with social inequalities in society will reduce crime

e.g youth groups, troubled families programme

Question 6

EVAL - social and community crime prevention

Answer 6

Ignores how factors such as material deprivation can limit the effectiveness of programmes