CRIM 3654 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Commodification, Neoliberalism, Crime Science
23 Dec 2014
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Criticisms and limitations: displacement, escalation, and adaption. Widely used crime prevention models; also one of the most diverse crime prevention strategies. Multiple evaluations; it is important for components to provide data and research; it"s also very easy to evaluate look at changes in crime rates. These evaluations have provided a strong record of success; there have been meaningful deductions in crime rates. Many of the programs are not evaluated because they are part of corporations. There is a theoretical argument; rational choice theory, situational choice theory, and crime being an opportunity; crime is unlikely because there is additional effort and additional cost. Evaluation research that exists; some studies have demonstrated displacement and some have it. Appeals by situational crime prevention advocates; the benefits that also produced at the same time offset those displacement effects where you have a net benefit. Need for long term evaluations: inequality and exclusion.
