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developmental crime prevention |
organised provision of resources to individuals, families, schools, or communities to forestall the later development of crime - risk focused prevention = risk factors for crime are identified and prevention programs are put in place - childhood antisocial behaviour - low self control - low parental supervision - harsh, inconsistent supervision - maltreatment - offending by parents and siblings - parental conflict - large family size - these risk factors fail to account for indigenous and other marginalised groups - needs of individuals and their families - resources at their disposal to meet needs and solve problems - gap between those resources and those that are needed to solve problems - providing skills, knowledge, time, social connections |
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community prevention |
- crime is a social problem that requires social ways of thinking and social solutions - community empowerment, mass mobilisaiton, social action, citizen particpation, public advocay, popular education - difficult to measure |
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situational prevention |
- opportunity reducing measures that are 1. directed at specific forms of crime 2. involve management, design or manipulation of immediate environment 3. make crime more difficult and less rewarding formal surveillance - cameras, guards natural surveillance - more people around, lighting action research displacement - crime in targeted area is reduced by shifting it to another place, target or time diffusion of benefits - the spread of beneficial influence to places, crimes, individuals, times other than those targeted Kirkhold Burglary Prevention Project |
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prevention through criminal justice |
work of police, courts and prisons - deterrence, rehabilitation, incapacitation - limited criminal crime prevention value in tradition police methods - what does work - policing strategies which increase perceived likelihood of apprehension if one offends - random breath testing |
