CRIM 3654 Chapter Notes -Crime Prevention, Harm Reduction, Retributive Justice
13 Dec 2013
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Crime prevention is activity which results in inactivity: a non-crime . As a social construct, crime is not static but culturally informed. All crime prevention measures embody assumptions or theories about the causes of crime: what it is about a given intervention which leads to it having particular preventive outcomes. It is important to know about the process and the outcome, as well as the impact of the former on the latter. Three broad levels at which to analyse crime prevention: theory, implementation, and evaluation. Crime prevention lies somewhere between policing and processes if social control. The term community safety is also preferable because it stresses the idea that action to prevent crime should be local. It is simultaneously a target of, and a resource for, crime prevention. Since considerable degree of crime, particularly that which has a direct impact on people"s everyday lives, is local in nature, it follows that crime prevention should reflect this through a.
