Crime Prevention

What is crime prevention?

• Strategies and measures to promote criminal activities and endanger safety.
• Methods and techniques to increase criminal activities and endanger safety.
• Strategies and measures to reduce criminal activities and promote safety.
• Ways to ignore criminal activities and neglect safety.

What role does technology play in crime prevention?

• Increases crime rates by providing criminals with new tools and methods.

• No impact on crime prevention.

• Benefits law enforcement and does not involve the community.

• Enables surveillance, data collection and predictions of where the crimes could take place.

What are the different types of crime prevention strategies?

• situational crime prevention, social crime prevention, community crime prevention, and environmental crime prevention

• punitive crime prevention, technological crime prevention, overall crime prevention, and educational crime prevention

How does community involvement contribute to crime prevention?

• Community involvement leads to a breakdown in social cohesion and increases criminal activity.

• Community involvement fosters a sense of responsibility, promotes awareness, and develops strong social networks to deter criminal behavior.

• Community involvement has no impact on crime prevention and is a waste of resources.

• Community involvement increases crime rates by encouraging vigilantism.

What are the key principles of situational crime prevention?

• Increasing effort, increasing risks, reducing rewards, removing excuses

• Making crimes easier

• Increasing the reward of crime and reducing the excuses

• Decreasing effort and then increasing risks

How can environmental design help in crime prevention?

• By installing security cameras in public spaces.

• By planting more trees and flowers.

• By improving lighting, increasing natural surveillance, and creating clear sightlines.

• By implementing stricter laws and regulations.

What is target hardening?

• Increasing vulnerability
• Weakening security measures
• Neglecting security precautions
• Strengthening security measures

Explain Community Crime Prevention

• Community crime prevention refers to the efforts made by community members, organizations, and law enforcement agencies to prevent crime and maintain safety within a community.
• Community crime prevention is ineffective and a waste of resources.
• Community crime prevention is the responsibility of the government only.
• Community crime prevention focuses on punishing criminals rather than preventing crime.

What does community crime prevention involve?

• Adding target hardening measures

• Implementing strategies within the community to help prevent crime eg ASBOs

• Adding police to the streets

• Creating more buildings with shutters

What comes under target hardening measures?

• Physical modifications eg shutters, locks, lighting

• Employee training eg making people more aware

• Fire safety measures
• Changing the environment such as planting more trees