Crime prevention and control

Cards (7)

  • 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