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what are the 2 right realist crime prevention scenarios |
1.) environmental crime prevention 2.) situational crime prevention |
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what are the two left realist crime prevention? |
1.) social and community crime prevention 2.) community crime prevention |
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Right realism, Environmental crime prevention |
involves changing the broader area, strategies rely heavily on the police but also institutions of social control eg, zero tolerance policing, Broken windows theory (wilson + keiling) |
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Broken windows theory |
signs of disorder like broken windows will encourage more disorder and crime |
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Criticisms of right realist crime prevention |
Not a lot of statistical support criminalises the poor and homeless |
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Positives of right realist crime prevention |
attempts to prevent crime with policing methods |
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what are three examples of right realist prevention |
neighbourhood watch ASBOS Parent education |
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Right realism- situation crime prevention |
attempts to understand why some environments seem to encourage criminal activity while others discourage focuses on initiatives used to discourage this form of behaving, such as decreasing opportunities to commute crime and increase the risk of being caught |
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What theory does right realism situational crime prevention stem from |
Rational choice theory (Clarke)- 2 main methods, increasing cctv and target harderning |
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what is meant by target hardening? |
making things harder to break or steal/hurt |
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positives and negatives of right realism situational crime prevention |
positives: relatively cheap and easy to implement can involve everyone, not just police negatives: only looks at environment not causes of crime it just displaces crime |
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what are the two left realism crime prevention methods? |
1.) social and community crime prevention 2.) community crime prevention |
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1.) social and community crime prevention (left realism) |
social structures and formal social control, focuses on particularly policing involve society as a whole tackle the unequal structure of society, these major structural changes are needed in reducing crime |
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2.) community crime prevention (left realism) |
policing and community, building visible relationships interventions and improving housing estates holistic approach- society viewed as whole. |
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Criticsms of left realism crime preventions |
the resources cost a lot like employing more police it idealistic- unlikely to happen doesn’t cover white collar crimes |
