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Crime prevention - Coggle Diagram
Crime prevention
Developmental Crime Prevention
Teach positive parenting techniques.
Parenting Programs
Focus on early childhood development.
Early Intervention
Developmental Crime Prevention focuses on addressing the root causes of criminal behavior by intervening early in individuals' lives, particularly targeting children and young adults, to reduce the likelihood of future criminal activity. It emphasizes social policies, educational programs, and individual development.
School-Based Programs
Conflict resolution skills.
Emotional learning
Social learning
Social Development
Life Skills Development
Teach critical thinking, decision-making, and self-regulation.
Peer Mentoring
Older peers guide younger individuals to make positive life choices.
Social Policies
Improving Education Systems
Access to quality education.
Support systems for students with behavioral or academic struggles.
Employment Opportunities
Job training programs for at-risk youth.
Partnerships with local businesses to provide internships or apprenticeships.
Developmental crime prevention
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) (also called Secure by Design (SBD))
Another way to control and prevent crime is through how an area is built and designed.
This looks at making sure the areas are safe and that the opportunity for crime is reduced.
Pros and Cons of situational crime prevention?
Rational choice theory is too assuming.
Focuses on petty crimes
Greatly reduces some crime
Ignores root causes of crime
There are a range of situational crime prevention strategies that can be used to reduce the opportunities for crime. These include:
Increasing access or exit controls;
Concealing or removing targets (such as lightweight, high value goods that tend to be easy to steal: jewellery; cash; IPods; mobile phones);
Increasing natural surveillance by removing obstacles to line of sight or improving street lighting;
Erecting or strengthening physical barriers such as window locks, double-pane glass, which is both more difficult and noisier to break, and deadbolt locks on doors;
Increasing formal surveillance using electronic alarms, CCTV, private security patrols or neighbourhood watch;
Restricting access to the tools of crime (such as spray paints);
There are a range of situational crime prevention strategies that can be used to reduce the opportunities for crime. These include:
Reducing provocation.