Prevention

There are a number of police officers and police departments that employ the community policing philosophy in order to help members of the community that they serve daily. One example of a police department employing the community policing philosophy would be the Columbia, South Carolina Police Department. They feel that because of the many issues around the country today has brought policing issues to the forefront of the public dialogue and has created an unlike of trust between the community…

There have also been effectiveness in neighborhood watch programs and volunteer programs for crime prevention. Police legitimacy is mediated by how the police exercise their authority when dealing with the public on police comportment with standards of professionalism and fairness. Community policing is perhaps the best known and certainly the most widely…

The Social Disorganization Theory was used by sociologists in Chicago to show how the city became so overrun with crime (Siegel, 2017). Social Disorganization theory is defined as “Branch of social structure theory that focuses on the breakdown in the inner-city neighborhood of institutions such as the family, school, and employment,” (Siegel, 2017). The theory can be used to find the correlation between crime and a disorganized society. Similarly, to the research in Chicago, the Social…

medication (Drew & Prenzler 2015). The results of the project were successful, resulting in participation to drug law enforcement and effective tracking of pseudoephedrine purchases resulting in crime prevention (Drew & Prenzler 2015). Whilst third party policing is highly beneficial in crime prevention, investigations are one of the most important elements involved in police…

nearly opposite to those of traditional policing. Yet, both models of policing are sharing the same goal, which is to maintain social order by reduce the harm brought by crime in the society. Community policing achieves such aim by emphasis on crime prevention, whereas traditional policing stresses on fighting crime. This differs the way of measuring how effective of these two models. The efficiency of traditional policing can simply be rely on criminal statistics, like detection…

Justice, 2013). Meaning that criminals choose to find their targets within context of their routine activities. The broken windows theory suggest that when maintaining and monitoring urban environment may prevent small crimes. Situational crime prevention theory says that public and crime can be prevented by reducing the chances of crime. For instance, putting more light in dark areas or increase police presence in the area. Crime pattern theory…

Recently I was watching Beyond Scared Straight, a show that broadcasts a juvenile crime prevention program that takes place in prisons around the U.S. In this episode a 17-year-old boy, Jerahn, was facing up to 35 years in jail for credit card fraud. Many would agree and say yes that this boy being nearly an adult should be mindful of his own actions and deserves his sentence. While others,like myself, believe that he should receive a less severe punishment and not be tried as an adult. Each…

Childhood smoking prevention in Australia Introduction Australia is one of the countries which has a decent result in reducing children smoking through implementing World Health Organization Framework on Tobacco Control strategies to decrease tobacco sales(1).However, the childhood smoking situation cannot be ignored. Adolescents who are exposed to smoking areas in their early ages are more likely to become smoker afterwards, so protecting children from smoking environment is important to…

Hayes, Downs, & Blackwood (2012), state that: the routine activity approach and its situational crime prevention theoretical framework describes how individual crime attempts may be prevented (p.3). Using the routine activity approach theoretical framework (that most criminal acts are undertaken by motivated offenders against a target or potential victim), based the situational crime prevention techniques, one can interrupt the opportunities directly and indirectly for a crime (shoplifting/…

The prevention of dental caries is the primary purpose for dental service. “Dental caries is defined as a localized, post-eruptive, pathological process of external origin involving softening of the hard tooth tissue and proceeding to the formation of a cavity” (WHO). The centerpiece for caries prevention since the 1960’s has been the application of sodium fluoride varnish. Typically, a sodium fluoride varnish treatment is conducted twice a year. Studies have shown that children who receive…