Social crime prevention
Definition
Strategies that target the developmental, social, and environmental conditions that produce offending, rather than the immediate situational opportunity. Operates upstream of any specific criminal act.
Related terms
- Community safety partnership
- A multi-agency governance arrangement that brings together police, local government, health, housing, education, and voluntary bodies to share data and coordinate responses...
- Developmental crime prevention
- Interventions targeting risk and protective factors at key life-course stages, particularly early childhood and adolescence, to reduce the probability that an individual...
- Displacement
- The relocation of crime following a prevention intervention. Can take five forms: territorial (to another place), temporal (to another time), target (to...
- Neighbourhood regeneration
- Physical, economic, and social improvement of deprived or high-crime areas, including housing renovation, public space design, employment schemes, and community organisation, as...
- Primary, secondary, tertiary prevention
- A public-health framework applied to crime: primary targets the whole population, secondary targets individuals or communities at elevated risk, tertiary targets known...
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- Social Prevention and Community SafetyStrategies that target the developmental, social, and environmental conditions that produce offending, rather than the immediate situational opportunity. Opera...