ATS1282 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Crime Prevention, Environmental Crime, Public Health
26 Oct 2018
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Crime prevention > aims to reduce crime by building communities who can effectively respond to and prevent crime. Can be categorised as primary, secondary and tertiary crime prevention. Primary crime prevention > focused on the general population, encourages members of the public to be cautious, also sends a deterrence message to offenders. Tertiary crime prevention > targets known offenders e. g. initiatives targeting ex-convicts including housing and work schemes in hopes to avoid recidivism. The idea that certain situations create opportunities for crime. 3 factors create the perfect situation for crime > motivated offender, suitable target and absence of a capable guardian. Presents crime as ordinary > a shift from seeing crime as pathological. In contemporary society we have an increase in suitable targets e. g. valuables and a decrease in availability of capable guardians. Increase in crime is linked to more opportunities for crime, not an increase in the number of offenders.
