ADMJ 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Crime Prevention, Anti-Social Behaviour, Social Contract
Document Summary
Approaches are offender based and concerned with deterring offenders. Involves changes to social environments and inequalities that lead to crime (understanding that crime is a social/structural problem > coming from classical theory approach) Efforts to tackle inequality & disadvantage (e. g. , welfare policy e. g access to the dole, social security nets, disabilility payments, education policy which targets groups of disengaged people to get them back into the education system) Structural and institutional reforms (target structural and systemic factors that lead to offending) E. g preventing sexual violence - sex and ethics program. Aims to reduce unwanted and pressured sex between people, but not at the expensive of positive experiences sex can provide. Achieves this by engaging young people to develop skills and knowledge in relation to: How alcohol and drugs influence decision making and consent. Overlaps with community/social prevention: more individualistic in focus.
