CRIM 3654 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Nail Polish, Access Control, Neoliberalism
8 Apr 2015
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Crime prevention models: social, community and neighborhood, environmental, situational. A preventative approach that relies not upon improving society or its institution, but simply upon reducing opportunities for crime (clarke, 1992): micro-focused. Increasing risks: relies on technology like surveillance, we are forced to engage in some practices. This follows from hot spots that crime is concentrated in particular spots. It is specific in its approach it"s important to look at what vandalism looks like in public places vs private spaces. Increase the risks risks of being caught: reduce the rewards, remove excuses/justifications, reduce provocations situational factors which can provoke people to engage in crime, diverse and de-centered refers to a wide range of crimes including robbery, theft, terrorism etc. In the 1960s there is dominance of sociological approaches to crime (societies the frame of reference: james q. wilson and the failures of academic criminology in his book.
