Crime prevention

In crime prevention, I will like to bring up the use of Electronic Monitoring offers an amount of public safety and regulation that is not possible in typical probation supervision, therefore, total control is not possible. Electronic monitoring does not reduce additional offenses. A moderate to high risk offender who is determined to commit a crime, can just cut the ankle monitor off. Even if the alarm is set off, the offender can commit a crime before the probation officer arrives (Bulow, 2014…

There is definitely no shortage of crime prevention programs out there to help in the communities. Many of these programs do well and do help the communities that they serve, but some just falter, dissipate, and become history. There are many that are just great and are in things for the long haul. One such program is The Gang Resistance Education And Training (G.R.E.A.T.) Program. This program is intended as an immunization against delinquency, youth violence, and gang membership (IIR, n.d.).…

to the definition of Situational Crime prevention, Martha J. Smith, referenced in the Oxford Bibliographies, presents us with a broad definition. She states that Situational Crime prevention “seeks to reduce the number of crime events by focusing on limiting the opportunities for crime to occur” (Smith, 2011). The Oxford Bibliographies also states that Situational Crime Prevention researchers assume offenders are rational when coming up with methods to stop crime (2011). For a more narrow…

development of non-coercive crime prevention and crime control strategies. We can spend money on the latest unproven technological innovation in our search for an effective crime prevention and/ or crime control strategy, but it is worth considering whether similar – or greater – crime prevention/control effects can be realized by using this money on proven strategies to improve education systems, create job training programs, improve housing, relocate families living in high crime areas, reduce…

“Clarke’s definitions of situational crime prevention are: opportunity-reducing measures that are directed at highly specific forms of crime; involve the management, design, or manipulation of the immediate environment in as systematic and permanent a way as possible; and make crime more difficult and risky, or less rewarding and excusable as judged by a wide range of offenders (p.56).” Schneider & Kitchen (2007), the essential element of situational crime prevention is the notion of…

the Church Arson Prevention Act on July 3, 1996. This act stipulated that is a crime to deface, damage or destroy religious property, or interfere with a person’s religious practice in situations affecting interstate commerce.9 This changed the sentencing of destroying religious property from 10 years to 20 years. It also increased the statue of limitations from 5 years to 7 years after the date the crime was committed. F. The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act of…

Armitage states "Crime Prevention through Environmental Design is a method of reducing crime through the design and manipulation of the built environment." (Armitage, 2016, p.1) The introduction that she presents us with is representative of the layouts and crime statistics in cities in England and Wales which after reading the article have a lot of similarities with the way New York is designed. This article is representative of my borough of Queens, and other parts of Brooklyn, and the Bronx…

unfair and is not helpful in reducing crimes. Therefore the prison system should be abolished…

People are often interested in the crime itself more than the environment of it when a crime occurs, for they are shocked or they psychologically tend to give much interest to what they feel is sensational. However, criminologists were interested in the environment of crimes; therefore, they analyzed it, which helped crime prevention develop a lot. The theories and studies that are related closely to the environment of crime are routine activity theory, environmental criminology and these…

situational crime prevention (SCP) are two different things, but they go hand-in-hand. The two articles discussed in this paper are surrounding this topic. The first article written by Hayward criticized RCT and SCP, while Farrell’s article countered Hayward. Farrell’s argument was more compelling than Hayward’s stating that RCT and SCP are the best theories to follow, although they do have room for improvement. First let’s define what rational choice theory, and situational crime prevention…