CRIM 3654 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Neoliberalism, Commodification, Corporate Crime
18 Nov 2016
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Another example of situational crime prevention is york campus security- Safety app reinforces the idea that safety is an increasingly individualized terms. Idea of people being extensions of york security. you are to be eyes and ears of security- take pictures of suspicions or people on the app. These are the most consistent and heavily valued crime prevention programs. Much easier to evaluate situational chains b/c they are more likely to have an immediate effect. Evaluations revealed: an impressive record of success smith et al examined 142 situational crime prevention case studies. He attributes the failure to the way the programs were implemented rather than the model itself (the model itself is sound) By introducing a situational crime prevention program in a particular place, offenders may assume that it exists in other places as well. Cctv on top deck of 3 buses in one city, but graffiti stopped everywhere.
