Problem solving

Question 1

What are examples of signal crimes?

Answer 1

Public drinking, swearing, rowdy uncivil behaviour by groups or individuals, graffiti, damage, vandalism, littering, evidence of drug dealing and taking, prostitution, speeding, rubbish dumping outside houses, burnt out cars.

Question 2

What is a problem?

Answer 2

A group of incidents occurring in a community that are similar or connected in one or more ways and that are of concern to the public and require a police response.

Question 3

What are some problem solving models?

Answer 3

POPs - Partnership orientated policing. 
OSARA
PAT / PAT enhanced
RAT - routine activity theory
Rational choice theory.

Question 4

What are barriers to effective problem solving?

Answer 4

Failure to recognise the problem. 
Conceiving the problem too narrowly. 
Making a hasty choice. 
Failure to consider all consequences. 
Failure to consider the feasibility of the solution.

Question 5

What is the OSARA model?

Answer 5

Objectives - need to be SMART - specific, measured, accountable, realistic, timed.
Scanning - identify problems.
Analysis - understand conditions that cause problems to occur.
Response - develop and implement solutions.
Assessment - determine the impact.

Question 6

PAT / PAT enhanced

Answer 6

Offender / handler
Location / manager
Victim / guardian

Question 7

Routine activity theory

Answer 7

Need value inertia visibility and access.

A likely offender / a suitable target / the absence of a capable guardian.

Question 8

What are the 10 principles of crime prevention?

Answer 8

Defection offenders
Rule setting
Increase chance of being caught
Visibility / surveillance
Environmental design
Target hardening
Access control
Reduce the payoff
Reduce the means to commit crime
Target removal

Question 9

What is rational choice theory?

Answer 9

Changing the potential offenders perceptions of these factors can change their decision.
Offenders perception of:
effort, risk, rewards, provocation, excuses.