Prevention and Control

Question 1

What is situational crime prevention?

Answer 1

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Question 2

What is an evaluation of situational crime prevention?

Question 3

What is environmental crime prevention?

Answer 3

• Focuses on formal and informal social control to prevent crime
• Based on Wilson and Kelling’s broken windows theory
• This community based approach argues crime occurs where there has been a loss of formal and informal social control
• Low-level antisocial behaviour should be prevented then more serious crime can be prevented
• The government should find ways of strenghtening local communities such as zero tolerance and target hardening

Question 4

What is an evaluation of environmental crime prevention?

Answer 4

• There is more emphasis on the role of formal control through the police
• There is not enough evidence to support the broken windows theory