CRM3308- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 29 pages long!)
30 Nov 2017
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*most of the stuff we do in crime prevention is an unqualified good. Crime prevention entails any action designed to reduce the actual level of crime and/or the perceived fear of crime (lab, p. 682), promise of crime prevention by: We say it"s better to do what we must to ensure security and that means justifying all things that. Risk must be done to get to that point. We"re willing to say oh yes it"s fine bc were willing to feel safe. Think of all the stuff that can be done in the name of security that can actually make some ppl"s lives less secure or disproportionately affects diff people of certain backgrounds and violates their rights. Positivistic assumptions about causality labelled crime and have laws associated with them. Tend to assume crime is harm and the most harmful actions in society are the behaviours. Focus on specifics like ex: theft, robbery, etc.
