CRIM 3654 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Crime Prevention, Environmental Design, Land Trust
10 Dec 2018
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The politics of crime prevention crim 3654. Situational crime prevention: e. g. red light cameras, cctv. Rehabilitation: prevent an individual from reoffending. Crime prevention through environmental design: e. g. street lighting for dark alleys. All citizens are involved in crime prevention on a daily basis. Mcgruff take a bite out of crime . Promotes neighbourhood watch and community responsibility in preventing crime. Easy to tell what is suspicious: e. g. Focuses on street level crime: e. g. robbery, break-and-enter. Limits to the ability of the police to catch all criminal activity. Crime prevention is the anticipation, recognition, and appraisal of a crime risk and the actions taken to remove or reduce it. The idea that prevention is future oriented. Article city staff push m plan to fight wave of gun violence. Shotspotter technology: device which can detect gun shots in real time and notify the police, ,000. Debate on how to spend money: e. g. technological approach, community approach, social programming etc.
