Knowra Crime prevention Crime prevention Crime prevention comprises policies and practices intended to reduce crime by addressing its causes, limiting opportunities, or reducing the risk of victimization.
Situational crime prevention : An approach that reduces opportunities for crime by changing the immediate settings in which it occurs. It makes targets harder to reach and offending riskier without necessarily changing offenders’ motives.
Primary prevention : Interventions aimed at preventing a problem before it occurs across a population or setting. Crime prevention often seeks to reduce risk before any offense or victimization happens.
Hot spot policing : A policing strategy that concentrates resources in small geographic areas with high crime levels. It applies place-focused prevention to locations where crime is concentrated.
Crime control : The reduction or suppression of crime through law enforcement, prosecution, and sanctions. Crime control often responds to offending, while prevention also acts before offenses occur.
Crime prevention and civil liberties : The relationship between efforts to reduce crime and protections for individual freedoms and legal rights. Surveillance and restrictions introduced for prevention can burden privacy and freedom of movement.
Routine activity theory : A theory that crime occurs when a motivated offender, a suitable target, and absent guardianship converge. It explains how prevention can work by changing target exposure or strengthening guardianship.
Secondary prevention : Interventions focused on people or settings identified as being at elevated risk of a problem. Some crime programs concentrate resources where risk is especially high.
Target hardening : Measures that make a person, place, or object more difficult to attack or steal from. Locks, barriers, and secure storage reduce the accessibility of potential targets.
Mass incarceration : The extensive use of imprisonment as a response to crime, especially in the United States. Its costs and limited preventive effects challenge reliance on incarceration as a prevention strategy.
Victimization prevention : Measures intended to reduce the likelihood that people experience crime and its harms. It centers protection from harm, including risks not captured by offense counts alone.
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