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Crime Prevention
Anything that defies the laws and is accountable for punishment forms into a criminal activity with the nature of crime. Crime features harm and violence, to people, to laws, to properties overall showing denial to the existence of these entities. Crime as stated by the judiciary laws must be contrary to the limitations set by the laws and must pose harmful situation to present of future occurring events. Crime or criminal both show varying relationships between each other with respect to the intention of doing the crime and failing to pursue the intention. There are many ways in which the definition of crime is defined and which fall into different categories explaining situational crimes as well as non-situational. Crimes fall into the categories of violent crimes, property crime, white-collar crimes and public order crimes. Crime can be prevented through crime prevention programs however often these programs do not play an effective role in minimizing the criminal activities (Lab, 2010). This paper tends to explain crime and crime prevention techniques in a detailed form. The definition of crime prevention has been extracted solely with the writer's own analysis. The paper also contains a detail on the explanation of the relationship between crime prevention and criminal justice system. At the end, a few examples have been added to demonstrate how crime prevention programs are working hard to create programs and methodologies that are helpful for the society in trying to restore a healthy criminal free environment....
Crime prevention is not only a method to suppress and eliminate sources criminal activity but to focus on the factors that are responsible for the formation and development of crime factors. Criminal activities take place based on two factors: habitual and need. A criminal's mindset may be triggering with the needy causes of committing a crime or is a psychologically habitual individual that possess risky behavior attributes leading him to committing crime (Lab, 2010). This does not limit the motivation of crime. Crime can be an outcome of many other motivations that are beyond needs or psychologically challenged aspects.
The basic elements constituting the crime prevention practice consist of the five major components. These components have taken modified forms into various types of crime prevention techniques. The first component is the awareness, which is the awareness of the crime and its nature. Second component is the prevention. Prevention can be of many forms; avoidance or preparing for safety measures. Third component is the risk reduction, which emphasizes on adopting safety measures for any unfortunate situation. It may include home safety measures such as installing safety alarms in the premises. Fourth component is the risk avoidance that is minimizing the chances of contact with any criminal activity believed to take place. Fifth component emphasizes learning self-defense techniques to escape from getting into a troubled situation and afterwards protecting oneself (Worall & J.L, 2008). Crime prevention…
References
Lab, S.P. (2010). Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practices and Evaluations. [Albany, N.Y.]: LexisNexis/Anderson Pub.
Worall, & J.L. (2008). Crime Control in America. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education.
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