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Crime control, prevention, and punishment

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  • Situational crime prevention: (👤 Clarke, 1980) focuses on reducing opportunities for crime through target hardening.
    • Displaces crime rather than reducing it overall.
  • Surveillance: (👤 Foucault, 1975) modern society uses disciplinary power, such as CCTV, to monitor behaviour.
    • Surveillance can be resisted and avoided.
  • Punishment: 👤 Durkheim (1938) sees punishment as reinforcing shared values. 👤 Garland (1985) argues there is now a culture of control with mass incarceration.
    • Harsh punishment does not always deter crime.
  • Victims: (👤 Christie, 1986) the concept of the ‘ideal victim’ shapes who receives sympathy and support.
    • Overlooks structural causes of victimisation.

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