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Crime prevention theories: strain, Marxist, realism, approaches
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- 1What are the four crime prevention theories?1.Merton's strain theory
2.Marxist theory
3.Left realism
4.Right realism - 2What is Merton's strain theory on crime prevention?Remove the barriers which prevent equal opportunity
- 3What is the Marxist theory on crime prevention?A classless society, replace capitalism with communism
- 4What is the Left Realist theory on crime prevention?Tackle the causes of crime - community policing essential
- 5What is the Right Realist theory on crime prevention?Harsher prison sentences, zero-tolerance policing.
- 6What are the three main approaches to crime prevention?1.Situational crime prevention
2.Environmental crime prevention
3.Social and Community crime prevention - 7What does the situational crime prevention approach believe?The best way to deal with crime is to prevent it occurring in the first place.
- 8What does Clarke say about Situational CP?There are three features of measures aimed at situational crime prevention
- 9What are the three features of measures outlined by Clarke?1.directed at specific crimes
2.involve managing or altering the immediate environment of the crime
3.aim at increasing the effort and risk of committing crime and reducing the rewards - 10What are examples of target hardening?Locking doors
- 11What theory does this approach contrast with and why?Marxism - they suggest underlying causes of crime such as the capitalist system or inadequate socialisation.
- 12What theory does the situational CP link to and why?Righ realism - criminals choose to commit crime and the solution to crime is to make it more difficult to commit crime
- 13Criticism - displacementIt often moves crime from one area to another, rather than preventing crime. E.g. spatial, temporal, target, tactical, functional
- 14What does the environmental CP believe?leaving broken windows unrepaired sends out a signal that no-one cares
- 15What are the solutions to crime?improving environment - any broken window must be repaired immediately etc.
Zero-tolerance policing - proactively tackling even the slightest sign of disorder, even if it is not criminal.
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