Prevention and punishment

Question 1

What are the types of crime prevention?

Answer 1

• Situational
• Environmental
• Community

Question 2

What is situational crime prevention?

Answer 2

Making adaptations to reduce crime locally:

• Reducing opportunities to commit crime and increasing risks of getting caught.
• Focuses on changing places not people.

Question 3

What are examples of situational crime prevention?

Answer 3

• Increasing surveillance: CCTV and neighbourhood watch.
• Target hardening: window locks.
• Based of rational choice theory.

Question 4

What are the strengths of situational crime prevention?

Answer 4

• Quick, easy and cheap to implement.
• Avoids labelling: focuses on places not people.

Question 5

What are the limitations of situational crime prevention?

Answer 5

• Crime displacement.
• Ignores inequality/deprivation as a cause of crime.
• Ignores emotion and thrill as a cause of crime.
• Less effective for white collar crimes.