CRIM 3654 Lecture Notes - Crime Prevention, Blacklight, Peer Pressure
13 Dec 2013
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Disney is talking to you all the time and telling you how to behave, what to do, where to go. When something is everywhere, you don"t notice it. New security works under very different logic and principles: you don"t notice police officers. Disney felt they can have more control over people if they had private security, because municipal police had restrictions under federal and state law. It was argued that situational prevention is a radical new form of crime control focused not on criminals but on criminogenic situations, with all that implies for criminological explanation. 3 fundamental mistakes in modern criminology: 1) problem of explaining crime was getting confused with problem of explaining criminal, 2) problem of controlling crime was confused with problem of dealing with offender, 3) notion of specificity. We should target specific crimes on the understanding that the situational determinants of each type of crime are different.
