CC291 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: York Regional Police, Crime Prevention, Mass Surveillance
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Police strategies: crime prevention is as it sounds: initiatives to prevent crime, this is done on a number of levels: primary, secondary, and tertiary. Environmental design, cctvs: cctvs are quite, perhaps most, controversial raises concerns about living in a surveillance society, amounts to constantly recording people"s movements e. g. , cameras on buses, taxis, private businesses, streets, etc. Focused on areas where crime and disorder are produced. Have to be careful about over-policing and racial profiling at the same time; carding an issue: broken windows approach: policing show attention to minor crimes so as to avoid deter an environment of serious crimes from being created. Research studies have consistently found that community notification does not increase public safety. p. 256, course text. Restorative justice is based on the principle that criminal behaviour . and family group conferences. p. 257, course text. Together, they formulate a sanction that addresses the needs of all parties. p. 257, course text.
