Crime prevention and control

• Clarke (1992)


  Crime is opportunistic
• Target hardening


  Tactics to make crime harder to commit

  • Lock doors
  • Alarms
  • CCTV
  • Fences
• Displacement


  Target hardening measures moving crime to a softer target
• Chaiken et al (1974)


  Situational crime prevention doesn't solve crime, it simply displaces it - New York subway robberies
• Wilson and Kellings (1982)


  Environmental crime prevention

  • Broken window theory
• Zero tolerance 


  Police and law enforcement cracking down on the less serious crimes to show zer tolerance. Followed by strict, uncompromising punishment
• Perry pre-school project


  Study showed that a good start in a child's life i.e. education, has a big impact on the way their life will turn out. Tackles the root causes of offending