by John Amy | Mar 18, 2014 | Control & Punishment
PART A Crime prevention measures Have you or your family taken any crime prevention measures or precautions in the last year? For example, are you careful in the way you use your mobile phone? Have you been reluctant to go out at night alone? Do you ever carry any...
by John Amy | Mar 18, 2014 | Control & Punishment
A survey of 76 known adult burglars in Rochdale, published by the Home Office Crime Prevention Unit in 1988, found that: Using the information above, you are asked to make recommendations to the local Neighbourhood Watch group about ‘target-hardening’ measures to...
by John Amy | Mar 18, 2014 | Control & Punishment
The High/Scope Perry Preschool Project is a famous research study started in 1962 by David Weikart in Michigan, USA. The project provided high-quality pre-school education to three- and four-year-old African-American children living in poverty and assessed to be at...
by John Amy | Mar 18, 2014 | Control & Punishment
What overall patterns can you see in these statistics? How are the British Crime survey results produced? What differences can you see between police recorded crime and BCS crime? Identify and explain four reasons for the decrease in crime. POLICE RECORDED CRIME...
by John Amy | Mar 18, 2014 | Control & Punishment
Question 1: Hirschi asks why people don’t commit crime. Why do you think people don’t commit crime? What would you be most concerned about if you were caught committing a crime? Question 2: Why do members of the public report regularly in surveys that they would like...
by John Amy | Mar 18, 2014 | Control & Punishment
Target-hardening refers to security measures such as locks, alarms etc, designed to make crime more difficult. Displacement refers to the way in which target hardening may result in crime being deflected onto different targets/victims. They ignore white-collar and...