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Situational Crime Prevention

Richard Rivas
Criminology
06/06/07

Assignment 1
3). Situational crime prevention aims to remove whatever is attractive to criminals about committing that particular crime. An example of this is the method they use at the shoe stores in the mall. At footlocker they only show you one shoe, this makes stealing non-rewarding for thieves. It would not make sense to only steal one shoe even if it was in your size. This approach reduces crime in quick and practical ways, by removing the opportunities a criminal has to commit a crime.
Situational Crime prevention works well when the crime is an offense, that clusters in time or space. This would explain why so many stores implement this form of crime prevention. In movie rental places such as blockbuster, the movies are kept up front where only the employees can reach them. This also makes it much easier to find the person who steals the movie or game because it would have to have been done by someone who works there.......


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