Crime Prevention and Control Strategies Quiz

What is the focus of situational crime prevention?

• Improving poor housing

• Making criminal activity less appealing to offenders

• Targeting individual offenders

• Reducing social inequalities

Which of the following is an example of environmental crime prevention?

• Youth leisure schemes

• Zero-tolerance policing

• Economic investment in poorer communities

• Improving poor housing

What is the focus of social and community crime prevention?

• Enlisting the local community in combating crime

• Emphasizing role of formal control measures

• Focusing on the individual offenders and their social context

• Improving poor housing

What is a criticism of situational crime prevention?

• More expensive than environmental crime prevention

• Studies suggest it is effective

• Tackles structural inequalities

• Ignores the roots of crime

Which strategy focuses on 'broken windows theory'?

• Target hardening

• Situational crime prevention

• Environmental crime prevention

• Social and community crime prevention

What is the main goal of environmental crime prevention?

• Targeting individual offenders

• Reducing social inequalities

• Improving poor housing and surroundings

• Making criminal activity less appealing to offenders

Who produced 25 techniques of situational crime prevention?

• Wilson and Kelling

• Cohen and Felson

• Cornish and Clarke

This theory states that in order for a crime to occur there needs to be the presence of a motivated offender, a suitable target and the absence of a capable guardian...

• Rational choice theory

• Routine activity theory

A capable guardian is determined to be

• Police/security workers

• Security measures

• Both

This crime prevention strategy is said to be the most costly

• Environmental

• Social and community

• Situatational