SOC313H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Natural Surveillance, Access Control, Crime Prevention
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Seen as a reaction against other ways of thinking about crime, Situational crime prevention looks at background factors of the situation - things that might pre-dispose a person to commit crime. Situational crime prevention sees nothing unique about offenders. There can be something good, or pleasurable about offending. Focus on the situation and not the background factors: prevention focused - a lot of criminological work is theoretical, a focus on rational choice - we are all rational calculators who go into situations and make rational calculations. There are things we are able to gain through crime: practice focused, dissatisfied with project to change motivations, 3 principles: all things designed to shape the pro-con calculus. Increase the effort that it takes for someone to gain access to the object: put locks on it, lock it up in a public place where there are lots of people who can always see what"s going on.
