Essays on Crime Prevention

Technological innovation such as hard and soft technology has assisted the policing of a country and helped the prevention of crime. Hard technology can be characterized by materials. Security systems such as CCTV cameras and street lighting are examples of hard technology. Whereas soft technology consists of computer software and information systems. Security mobile apps,…

Crime must be punished, but the methods as to how to punish crime can prove to deliver very different results. Randall Collins says in his book the Sociological Insight that the modern punishment of crime characterized by courtrooms has a ritualistic purpose for the non-deviants of a society rather than for the offenders (1992). Collins…

Sociology is a big part of criminology, as we know sociology is the study of social groups, race, class etc, well those same concepts apply to criminology within those who get caught, prosecuted and incarcerated, as well as what happens to them after they serve their sentence in prison. Edwin Sutherland played a huge role…

Organized crime is often connoted with the mafia, norco cartels and the mob. However, each of these organizations are designed and operate differently, allowing various power structures, incentives and members to stir it. The sophistication that surrounds these often, global organizations usually uproots stereotypical understandings of criminality. Criminal networks are not only expanding at exponential…

The classical school of criminal theory is very different, from its counterpart the school known as the positivist school of criminal theory. Classical school of criminal theory was formed around the earlier 1700’s and there were not any laws to follow what so ever, so whatever crime that were committed they decided your punishment. The…

Strategies for preventing crime, drug misuse and other antisocial behavior among young people should be designed to counter specific risk factors and, where possible, to enhance known protective factors. A combination of interventions might be more effective than a single method. On the basis of well-designed experimental research – currently implementing at the United States…

Based on the various hypothesis, theories, and strategies supplied by the likes of Shaw & McKay (1931), Sampson & Groves (1989), C. Ray Jeffrey (1971), Jane Jacobs(1961), Oscar Newman (1972), Cohen and Felson (1979) , and Paul and Patricia Brantingham (1981), it seems that environmental criminology focuses not only on the criminal event itself, but…

There are four key strategies of ACCEPTED these strategies are territorial, natural surveillance, activity support, and access control. Crime prevention through environmental design is used in private and public security to provide for the security of people, resources, and structures. Private and public security companies use the many facets of crime prevention through environmental design….

Deterring crime is the first priority of security. With a revolving door of theories, criminologists, and ideas, there is a constant evolution of mindsets on what prevents crime. A major plan that has been researched and tested is CPTED. According to Julia Ryan, CPTED, or known as Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design, is a multidisciplinary…

I, Yolanda E. Frelow would like to submit my draft of recommendations on how to address and resolve youth crime within our communities. The feasibility of my proposed solutions is backed by my previous research on this issue. The solutions can be complex due to many young offenders with no prior criminal history are committing…