Ecological Theory Of Crime Essay

There are many different complex’s ecological theories that were developed at the Chicago School of Human Ecology. There studies “of modern crime mapping can be directly attributed to the work of more modern ecological theorists, including those who have worked in the areas of defensible space, crime prevention through environmental design, situational crime prevention, routine activity theory and crime pattern theory. (Robinson, 2009)” To further discuss the theories, I will compare and contrast crime prevention through environmental design and situational crime prevention.

Crime prevention through environmental design is a relatively new concept, but some would say the basic concept behind this theory could date back to caveman because they also used their physical environment as protection.

Although today there was a breakthrough in modern crime prevention that goes farther in depth than what cavemen used to use. This specify

Since preventing crimes is the primary goal in both theory, although they have different views on how to prevent those crimes, for instance crime prevention through environmental design tries to pin point where the most crimes are taking place and who the offender is committing the crimes. Unlike situational crime prevention who stops the opportunities for crimes before it occurs. Each theory also received funding by scholars, but crime prevention through environmental design was not able to produce enough information to back their theory so funding came to a stop. Unlike situational crime prevention that kept funding going, because their theory was successful. Each theory also had their own problems they had to deal with, in order to keep their theory evolving. In the end both theories want to prevent crimes, they just use different strategies to prove their