CRM 2310 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Peer Pressure, Utility Knife, Major Crimes
10 Feb 2015
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Community intervention in criminology can therefore consist of many things. Community corrections (both security and therapeutic ends) Policing and surveillance methods: community policing goals, forming good relationships to reduce fear and gain trust and cooperation with citizens. diversion programs for young people, neighbourhood watch program. Restorative and preventative approaches: circle sentencing, victim-offender mediation, Building social capital: some families that lost fathers due to incarceration, so the lower class citizens don"t get community support as much as those who"s family members aren"t in jail. Re-entry and rehabilitation: public security and safety. Author critically examines notion of community and linkage to criminology: Impact of urbanization, industrialization, and we have a social distance. Even with technology, people feel safer online than real life. Believes that urbanization is not the reason for collapse. Based on the research of the 1950s and 1960s such as the gans"s urban villages and the social participation studies. More freedom such as transportation and cellphones.
