crime prevention and control Flashcards
Ron clarke (RR) situational crime prevention ?
-describe SCP approach that relies not on improving society or its institutions but reducing opportunities
1)direct at specfic crimes
2)involve managing immediate enviourment of crime
3) aim to increase the effort and risks of committing and reduce the rewards
AO3 ron clarke
-encourages displacement to other area
kelling and wilson (RR) enviourmental crime prevention
-zero tolerance policy:crack down and prevent crime
-broken window theory -signs of disorder showing others a signal no one cares
social and community crime prevention (LR)
-that longer term strategies aim to tackle the root cause rather than removing opportunities (poverty/unemployment)
AO3 of social and community crime prevention
-unpopular with public will take years and time consuming
foucault (surviellence)
-prison is how everyone is controlled by those in power
-24/7 surviellence, ID cards shift from sovreign to disciplinary
-soverign is visible punishment
-disciplinary is govern not jsut body but mind
AO3 of foucault
Norris
-CCTV society causes displacement
haggerty amd ericson (survillence)
-surveillance now involves manipulation of virtual objects (digital data)
-CCTV can no recognise facial recognition
AO3 of haggerty and ericson
-assumes technology is placed fairly around the UK
-however it brings back labelling as it has whole communities under suspicion (targeting)
feeley and simon (survillence)
-new techlonogy is emerging from disiciplinary as:
-focus on groups not individuals
-doesn’t want to rehabilitate offenders but prevent them
-uses calculation of risk (e.g young drivers, high insurance)
Mathiesen (survillence)
-everybody watches everybody (self survillence)
AO3 of mathiesen
- goverment can still impose strict media regulation
-durkheim (punishment)
-retributive justice: punshiment is severe and cruel is motiviation is purely expressive
-restitutive justice: aims to make amends to the victim through compensation
what do marxists believe about imprisionent ?
-imprisionment is a way of maintain social classes
-function of punishment is to maintain the socil order
melossi and pavarini (marxists)
-captalism puts a price on the workers time so prisioners ‘do time’ to pay for crime (debt to soceity)