The Effects Of Situational And Social Crime Prevention

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Throughout this essay, I will be discussing Crime Prevention looking at situational and social Crime Prevention and aspects such as Broken Windows policy, Zero Tolerance and Anti-social behaviour policing. In “Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice”, (Walklate, 2004) presents the idea of “Crime prevention has moved to victimisation prevention” I will discuss some the negative and positive effects of each of these, looking into the public opinion of these particular policies for the use of Crime Prevention and some examples of this.

Firstly, Situational, as well as social crime prevention, is split into three sections: primary, secondary and tertiary. Situational crime prevention which focuses on the settings in which crime takes place rather than …show more content…

The Broken Windows policy is part of the Social and community-based Crime Prevention, other social and community-based crime prevention is Neighbourhood watch systems. Looking at the negative effects of Broken Window policy, many communities, particularly in the United States dislike the Broken Windows policy, looking at an article in the guardian, it states that many people, including police officers, do not understand the concept of the Broken Windows policy as they simply see it as an action of the Zero Tolerance Policy. There have been cases where Policing, again looking at the United States, following the rules of the Broken Windows Policy has led to some preventable deaths. (Eterno, E and Silverman, J (2015) “Enough broken window policing. We need a community-oriented approach” Available on: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/29/enough-broken-windows-policing-need-community-approach (last accessed: 04/10/16)), for example, Eric Garner, who was killed in the streets by a police officer using the chokehold for allegedly selling untaxed cigarettes, following the Broken Windows Policy. The chief of police defended the Broken Windows policy on the fact that it does prevent more serious crime from happening and he denied any comments on the account that the police are racially targeting people, he goes on to say they are targeting behaviour. (Song, J (2014) “NYPD Commissioner defends “Broken Windows” Policing” Available on:

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