right realism policy development Flashcards
What are 3 right realism policy developments?
1)Sustainable crime prevention
2)enviroment crime prevention
3)imprisonment
What is the sustainable crime prevention?
Crime can be reduced by increasing the difficulty and and reducing the rewards
What is ‘target hardening’
to design crime out of an area by implementing things such as locking cars and security guards
Why is sustainable crime prevention seen as a weak policy development?
displacement - offenders move to a softer target
What is enviromental crime prevention?
a two-fold policy:
1)Enviromental improvement strategy
2)zero-tolerance policing strategy
What is an enviroment improvement strategy?
Signs of disorder is removed.
What is zero-tolerance policing strategy?
‘Zero-tolerance’ attitude towards all crimes. The police should tackle lower level crimes to prevent the high level crimes
What is an issue with the enviromental crime prevention?
The enviromental crime prevention ignores the strcutural causes of crime
What are the strengths of zero-tolerance policing?
crimes decreased in newyork in 1990s after introducing ZTP
What is the weakness of ZTP?
While crime went done for states that had ZTP; states that did not introduce ZTP also had a drop in crime rates so ZTP won’t be the main factor as to why crime has decreased.
Why did ZTP curfew increase juvenile crime?
It made the streets quiet which was opportunitistic for crimes
What was an issue within ZPT?
It is targeting certain ethnic minorities by police racism
Who conducted the enviromental crime prevention?
Wilson and Kelling
What is the policy development: imprisonment?
tougher punishments will deter criminals
What is ‘prison works’?
The goverment took upon the idea that tougher penalties were required.
