SOC316H5 Lecture : Lecture #1
Document Summary
Crime prevention: actions taken before a crime is committed to prevent it, attitudes, activities, behaviours and environmental designs. How crime prevention relates to your everyday life: university: cctv, self-defence class, security. Individual: info provided to people: amusement parks: crowd control, cities: cctv. (london has the most elaborate cctv system in the world it can track cars all through the city). Child transportation: kids used to walk to school on their own. 9/11 the single most important impact in the way we operate security, and on civil rights. Interventions designed to change the social conditions in the community: housing for homeless, programs in high risk neighbourhoods.
