Crime prevention has a different meaning to everyone, but to put it in the simplest terms, crime prevention is anything that is done to reduce the level of crime. Crime prevention entails any action that is designed to …show more content…
The programs are designed to help improve the general well-being of citizens and to help make them feel safer within their community. To some extent the programs may help people, but the fact is that crime will always occur no matter what programs are out there. Programs have been directed to the youth to help deter them from crime, but have failed. Take for instance the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program. This program has shown and has been proven to have no impact on its intended target. The program has had no effect or impact on the level of drug use and abuse, yet it is continually supported by federal funding (Lab, 2004). This is not to say that all programs have this type of outcome, but it seems that there should be another definition for crime prevention or the term crime prevention should be changed. If you look into all aspects of a crime prevention program and look at the success of the program over a long term you can see that crime is not prevented. A new definition for crime prevention, which should be referred to as crime reduction, should be; any program or action that is designed to reduce the total amount of crime to help make community members feel safer. I believe this is a better description because crime will always find a way to be. People are creative and getting more creative with technology, so more inventive ways of committing crimes are being made as this paper is being written. Crime can be reduced and deterred through the combined efforts of the citizens and law enforcement, but will never be fully