SOC316H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Rexdale, Informal Social Control
Document Summary
The contestable nature of community: what is community?- concept of community in crime prevention/ control. Tied to welfare state in 1950s- idea of providing equality: diverse strategies based on crime prevention model being used, 2 models of community crime prevention, basic premises, assumptions inherent in the concept of community crime prevention (ccp) **traditionally concerned with opportunity for crime the community developmental model focuses on socioeconomic development of neighbourhood or at risk groups identifying underlying causes of crime and providing social programs to address those causes. **common for both: strong sense of informal social control, positive social development through local institutions, rely on social cohesion and communities to work together. Strategies for preventing crime should be supported by the whole community in order to be effective: collective action: collective response in which individuals act jointly to undertake crime prevention activities, cannot be accomplished alone; strength in numbers.
