Solutions and preventions of crime

• What type of crime prevention strategy do right realists use?

  Situational crime prevention
• How do right realist argue crime should be prevented?

  By changing the environment to make crime harder to commit e.g adding more surveillance
• What does Chaiken argue about right realists crime prevention method?


  That this leads to the displacement of crime to less protected areas
• What is an argument against right realist view of prevention?

  It doesn't provide a solution for state crimes
• What does the environmental crime prevention view argue?


  That in order to prevent areas from becoming vulnerable to crime they should be kept clean and well maintained
• What is the structuralist view to crime prevention?

  That crime is as a result of inequality so in order to prevent crime this has to be addressed
• What are the 2 main structuralist views?

  Left-realists and marxists
• What is the individualist and interventionist view to crime prevention?

  Argue that some groups are more likely to commit crime so in order to prevent crime their behaviors should be changed
• What does Foucault argue about surveillance in prisons?

  That prisons exert disciplinary power via surveillance and this may promote better behavior and less crime
• What is physical surveillance?


  Monitoring cities and towns via CCTV etc...
• What is technological surveillance?


  Monitoring and tracking used by the police or government to catch criminal via screening online communication etc...