Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to enlighten and explore crime prevention in a holistic manner. This paper aims to address different approaches used by the legislative authorities; nonetheless, the paper will also discuss the problems that arise at different levels of crime prevention. Crime prevention is a process that is carried out through different level. Each level of crime prevention and each approach used by legislative authorities faces certain problems and hindrances that disrupt crime prevention process. Hence, the paper will address crime prevention problems in diverse contexts and discuss several forms of criticism at crime prevention approaches as they also deteriorate the process of crime prevention.

Table of Contents

Introduction3

The Micro Level of Crime Prevention Problems4

The Macro Level of Crime Prevention5

Criticism at Crime Prevention Approaches6

Crime Displacement7

Irrational Crime Prevention Approaches8

Social and Ethical Problems of Crime Prevention8

Invasive and Oppressive Concerns10

Societal Concerns10

Conclusion11

Works Cited13

Problems in Crime Control and Crime Prevention

Introduction

The purpose of this paper is to enlighten and explore the problems related to crime prevention. This paper will discuss the process of crime prevention in a holistic manner; nonetheless, the paper will also enlighten the problems that are related with the crime prevention process at different levels. Moreover, the criticism on crime prevention process from human rights and several other sources is also hindrance to crime prevention process; hence, the paper will also focus on the problems with respect to several criticisms. Crime prevention viewed in its broadest sense, crime prevention, like, for example, the notion of social control, has been around as long as humans have sought to protect their property from threat and themselves from harm to their well-being. None the less, as a formal feature of modern crime control systems, it is more helpful to plot the rise of crime prevention since the latter decades of the twentieth century. In turn, it was during these decades that we also witnessed an ever increasing output of criminological writing and research aimed at classifying - largely for governmental purposes - the major types of crime prevention techniques and strategies and their seeming effectiveness or otherwise.

The international 'growth industry' and 'import-export' trade in practical advice and policy knowledge about crime prevention techniques and strategies (associated with 'evaluation' research) has witnessed the rise of several key definitions and typologies of crime prevention. In turn, these have had an uneven but important impact in changing policy and practice both in formal crime control systems and in the routine activities of citizens and their efforts to protect themselves prudentially. Crime prevention research is thus a striking example of what may be termed 'policy criminology' and the development of new governmental savoir arising out of social scientific inquiry and policy entrepreneurship. Arguably, the most influential means of classifying crime prevention is that based on the distinction between social (community based) and situational techniques and strategies of prevention.

The Micro Level of Crime Prevention Problems

The design and application of crime prevention and victimization avoidance strategies at the micro level often utilize victim-oriented, community/ neighborhood-oriented, and offender-oriented as well as situational ...