Crime prevention

• Social and community crime prevention, left

  Looks at dealing with social conditions that lead to some individuals committing crime

  • poverty = major cause of crime > general social policies may have a crime prevention role (e.g. full employment policies may have the side effect of reducing crime)
• Social and community example: Perry School Project

  Experimental group of disadvantaged 3-4 year olds given a two year intellectual enrichment programme

  • longitudinal study following progress into adulthood showed fewer arrests for violent crime etc. compared with peers not included in programme
• Evaluation of social and community

  Long term strategies attempting to tackle the root of causes of offending rather than short term removal of opportunities for crime
• Labelling and surveillance

  Norris and Armstrong found CCTV targets young black males based on racist stereotypes > creates SFP > offences are revealed while criminalisation of others is lessened because their offences are ignored