Situational Crime Prevention

Question 1

What does Situational Crime prevention focus on?

Answer 1

the specific point at which potential victims and criminals come together, making it harder for the criminal to commit crime

Question 2

What does situational crime prevention stem from?

Answer 2

Rational Choice Theory

Question 3

What does Situational Crime prevention involve?

Answer 3

reducing the opportunity for people to commit crime or increasing the risk of getting caught when committing a crime

Question 4

How do the government reduce the opportunity for people to commit crime or increase the risk of getting caught when committing crime?

Answer 4

through increasing surveillance of the population (monitoring their behaviour and making them aware of the fact they are being monitored) and target hardening (making buildings, objects and people harder to steal or kidnap or damage).

Question 5

why do governments find policies so appealing?

Answer 5

• relatively cheap and simple to implement

- can be implemented by wide range of bodies such as local council, schools, businesses

Question 6

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Answer 6

it leads to crime displacement, these preventative measures do not reduce crime they move it to another place or rime.