Crime Prevention Techniques Flashcards
Anticipation, recognition and appraisal of a crime risk and the initiation of some actions to remove or reduce it
Crime Prevention
Crime results when these 2 elements exist
Desire to commit
Opportunity to do so
When the threat of punishment deters a person from committing an offense for which he might be punished
Punitive approach
Emphasizes working with the individual or social conditions in order to assure that the individuals will not commit another offense or place the individual in an area where criminal behavior is discouraged
Corrective approach
Places obstacles in the path of the would-be-offender to make committing the crime more difficult
Mechanical Approach
Removes the causes of crime or the conditions which breed and nurture it
Causal Approach
What are the Crime triangle elements?
Desire+Skills and Tools+Opportunity=Crime
What are the four crime prevention categories?
- Punitive approach
- Corrective approach
- Mechanical approach
- Causal Approach
Process where increased security measures at one location may also benefit neighboring facilities
Diffusion
Similar to crime prevention, the anticipation recognition and appraisal of a risk and the initiation of some action to remove or reduce the risks or to reduce the potential loss from that risk to an acceptable level
Risk Management
Potential loss condition which exists because the anticipated profits exceed the probable loss factor
Dynamic Risk
Potential loss condition which exists because of ignorance or inability on the part of the potential victim and from which no profit can possibly accrue only losses
Pure Risk
Eliminating the existence of criminal opportunity or avoiding the creation of an opportunity
Risk Avoidance
Reduction of the opportunity and the potential loss to the lowest level which is compatible with the business
Risk Reduction
Assets which remain exposed after the concepts of reduction and avoidance have been applied are subject of this alternative
Risk spreading
Transfer those risks not reduced to an acceptable level to someone else
Risk transfer
All remaining risks that must be assumed by the business
Risk Acceptance
What are the 5 alternatives for risk management
- Risk Avoidance
- Risk Reduction
- Risk spreading
- Risk Acceptance
- Risk transfer