Crime Prevention

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twenty years is because of the economics of the justice system. The government was facing huge costs and they wanted to divert some responsibility to community based programs. Another reason was that police departments wanted to use the local communities to be their eyes and ears.
The reason for this belief was because the community would know exactly what is going on in their area. Finally, the local communities were demanding that they be involved in fighting crime because they were tired of criminal activity in their neighbourhood.
Through Environmental Design

Environmental design changes an unsafe situation to a safe situation with better surveillance opportunities. These changes are achieved through physical aspects of the environment through architectural, social & planning techniques so that criminal activities will be reduced.
The idea was actually invented by planners, and architects. They were unhappy with the planning because there was a high rate of ...

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civic design and how cities want to make the local community look aesthetically pleasing. An example is the landscape design of a park or street. Dense bushes may conceal a perpetrator and give him/her an ideal chance for an attack. Poorly lit bus shelters or parking lots give the offender a good chance to attack a person undetected and unnoticed. Obviously a solution to these situations are replacing dense bushes with groundcover or bedding plants. A solution to the parkades and bus shelters would be to provide sufficient lighting. This idea of environmental design is a local municipal government funded program more than a community crime prevention tactic.
The community could be ...

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