Crime prevention

Crime prevention

1. Situational crime prevention

   • Clarke - reduces opportunities to commit crime
   • Does not prevent crime, just displaces it
     • Chaiken - found that a crackdown on subway robberies in New York merely displaced them to the streets above
     • Types of displacement:
       • Spatial - different geographical location
       • Temporal - commit at different time
       • Target - different victim
       • Tactical - different method
       • Functional - different type of crime

2. Environmental crime prevention

3. Social and community crime prevention