SOC316H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Neighbourhood Watch (United Kingdom), Panopticon, Dead Bolt
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Lecture 9- march 22, 2013 criminal acts: rational choice model- weigh risks and benefits. Reducing opportunity for crime: directly- criminal opportunities can be reduced through management, design, or manipulation of immediate physical environment to enhance its safety and security, window bars, entry screening, metal detectors, security cameras. Informal- changing how they use space, changing behavior. Types of scp reduction strategies: can be classified into 3 type, those that: Making targets of crime harder to get at; making it difficult to commit crime. Perception or real fact that you are likely to get caught: reduce rewards of crime. Removing targets all together or making them less valuable. Identifying property: dead bolt locks, locking gates, window bars, customs port of entry. Checking bags for bottles at sporting events/concerts. Reduces value of something on the black market. Removing the temptation/ taking away the product. Placing cigarettes in locked cabinets in a store.
