Knowra Situational crime prevention Situational crime prevention Situational crime prevention reduces crime by changing immediate settings to make offending more difficult, risky, or less rewarding, or to remove its triggers and excuses.
25 techniques of situational crime prevention : A classification of measures that increase effort and risk, reduce rewards, reduce provocations, or remove excuses for crime. This framework organizes the concrete changes through which situational prevention operates.
Ronald V. Clarke : A British criminologist who developed and promoted situational crime prevention as a systematic approach. Clarke formulated the approach and its practical classifications.
Hot spots policing : A policing strategy that concentrates resources in small geographic areas with high crime levels. It applies focused prevention to places where opportunities for crime recur.
Crime displacement : The movement of crime to different times, places, targets, methods, or offenses after prevention measures are introduced. Displacement is the main concern that prevention changes where or how crime occurs instead of stopping it.
Crime prevention : Policies and practices intended to reduce crime or its harms before they occur. Situational prevention is one strategy within the broader field of crime prevention.
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design : An approach to reducing crime through the design and management of buildings, spaces, and neighborhoods. Its environmental design strategies can increase surveillance and restrict opportunities at specific sites.
Crime as Opportunity : A criminological perspective that treats opportunities as a significant influence on whether crimes occur. This edited volume helped establish opportunity reduction as a distinct prevention strategy.
Crime prevention through product design : The design of products to reduce their theft, misuse, or use in committing crime. Product features can make targets harder to steal or stolen goods harder to use.
Diffusion of benefits : A reduction in crime beyond the places or targets directly covered by a prevention intervention. This counter-pattern suggests prevention can deter offenses beyond its immediate target area.
Surveillance : The systematic observation of people, places, or activities to gather information or influence behavior. Many interventions increase monitoring, creating questions about privacy and oversight.
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