Exam 19: Crime Prevention

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Responses could include:
-Engage government and non-government organisations in the development of local crime plans to address crime hot spots and issues
-Work with police and licenced venues to reduce alcohol-related antisocial behaviour, offences and violence.In particular, development of liquor licencing accords to ensure responsible service of alcohol, patron safety and community safety
-Improve the natural surveillance within key areas (e.g.support outdoor eateries, licencing late night food service, improve visibility by removing vegetation or lighting corners/blind spots, block or control some access lanes, making areas more attractive and encourage people to use spaces)
-Work with local shop owners to ensure adequate lighting and security to reduce crimes like shop front damage, etc.

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Responses should include:
• Deterrence refers to fear of punishment
• Increasing the severity of the punishment does not appear to decrease crime, however, increasing the certainty of punishment does
• Of course, if an offender does not believe they will be caught, they are not going to be concerned about the severity of punishment
• Deterrence does not appear to have an impact on recidivism
• Policing strategies like crackdowns and blitzes in crime hot spots have been shown to work. Because they cannot be predicted by offenders, they lead to a high level of uncertainty about being apprehended. Random breath testing is an example of this policing approach.

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Responses could include:
-Based on the notion that crime is a social problem
-Recognises the need for local solutions to local problems
-Came from research conducted in the early 19th century by the Chicago School on the social ecology of cities and community prevention strategies developed from that research
-Strategies focused on community-wide action and included community empowerment, community mobilisation, social action, citizen participation, public advocacy, popular education, and development of local services tailored to specific needs
-Difficult to evaluate if community prevention has a direct effect on reducing crime as it also addresses other social problems like access to child care services, transition and connections to school, linking families to their communities and so on.However, addressing individual risk factors can improve the health and wellbeing of the wider community.