Crime Prevention & Social Control

Question 1

Social Control

Answer 1

way soc tries to ensure mems don’t break norms / commit crime - makes ppl conform to rules

Question 2

Informal Social Control

Answer 2

how we are persuaded to conform through being taught what = acceptable

Question 3

Situational Approach

Answer 3

involves changing physical environ of an area to make harder for crims to commit crime eg gated communs, improv lighting & surveillance cameras
based on rational choice theory - crims X try commit crime if likely will fail

Question 4

Evaluation of the Situational Approach

Answer 4

Chaiken (1974) situ app don’t always red crime - just displace
spatial - move elsewhere - dif house if 1locked
temporal - dif time - m likely unlocked in day
target - dif target - chose child X w/ parents to kidnap
tactitcal - dif method - limit paracetamol
strat focuses on crimes - vandalism theft & pther local disorders X pro / gov crime - some socios situ crime prev only deals w/ symps X factors causing ppl to resort to crime