Crime Prevention through Punishment

An Exploration of Social Alternatives to Crime Prevention

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ABSTRACT

Crime prevention is multi-level and social measures of state aimed at eliminating the causes and conditions of crime or their reduction and thus help in reducing crime. The global problem of crime prevention finds intensive development in the works of well-known legal scholars and social scientists. Crime can be prevented by several preventative strategies; however, the most effective one involves the preventive effect on the dynamics, structure, and causes of crime in general. This is known as social prevention, which is beyond the scope of criminology and is part of the social practice in general, and subject to all of the social sciences and human and crime control. This research study is concerned with these social preventive alternatives for crime. The purpose of this mixed method research is to understand the concept of crime and the criminal acts in the society, analyse the crime prevention strategies used to reduce or eliminate crime, explore the use of punishment as a crime prevention strategy and investigate the social alternatives to crime prevention.

TABLE OF CONTENT

ABSTRACTii

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION4

Background of the Study4

Research Question5

Research Objectives5

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW6

Crime6

Prevention of Crimes7

Criminal punishment8

Alternative measures of criminal punishment9

CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY11

Research Design12

Data Collection13

REFERENCES14

APPENDICES23

Appendix A: Participant Consent form23

Appendix B: Likert Scale Questionnaire Survey25

Appendix C: Interview Questionnaire for the Crime Prevention Officer28

Appendix D: Interview Questionnaire for the Magistrate29

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

The purpose of this chapter is to provide the reader a brief overview about the research topic and provides the main purpose and aim behind this research study. It comprises of the background of the problem, which provides a brief overview of the topic of the research and the problem. This chapter gives a background to the problem and explains why it is of research interest. Finally, a brief paragraph about the significance of the research topic area is also provided. This chapter also includes the structure of the thesis, which will briefly explain the flow of the thesis and subject covered in every chapter.

Background of the Study

Crime prevention should be the focus of the society and the state. Crime prevention can and should be planned (Capobianco, 2010). Theory of crime prevention is a body of knowledge about the activities to improve public relations in order to identify and neutralize the causes of crime and the conditions conducive to it, the identification and neutralization of the phenomena and processes that lead to the commission, the growth and spread of certain forms and types of crime, the factors affecting the formation of anti-social traits in certain categories of persons, the impact on their living conditions and education, the elimination of specific conditions, causing the commission of crimes by individuals, determining the forms and methods of crime control (Capobianco, 2010).

Crime prevention consists of hierarchically related problems (Capobianco, 2010). The first of them is the preventive effect on the dynamics, structure, and causes of crime in general. This is known as social prevention (Griffiths, Dandurand & Murdoch, 2007). It is beyond the scope of criminology and ...