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Situational crime prevention has been a disputed development that has struggled to acquire acceptance within the field of criminology. The approaches of situational prevention contrast in many ways with those of traditional criminological theory. Criminology seeks to understand offenders and the psychological forces that create them, situational prevention is concerned only with the immediate circumstances under which crime is performed. It is believed that the situational approach lacks the robustness, and sophistication of other criminological theories and amounts to little more than common sense. It gives details of where and when crimes happened, but put up hardly any to the understanding of why a crime occur. Situational crime prevention counts on mindless target-hardening and is a simplistic response to a complex social problem.
Crime displacement may occur when a criminal chnages the location of crime because the location no longer provides opportunities for crime
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Situational crime prevention speaks to opportunities for crime.
It comprises “opportunity-reducing measures" that
(1) are directed at highly specific forms of crime,
(2) involve the management, design and manipulation of the immediate environment in as systematic and permanent a way as possible,
(3) make crime more difficult and risky, or less rewarding and excusable as judged by a wide range of offenders.
Situational crime preventions's greatest criticism posits that an excercebation of attitude may occur when a criminal changes the location of crime because the current location no longer provides opportunities for crime.
Put differently the critics are simply saying that
"If opportunities for certain kinds of crime are blocked, offenders simply resort to more violence or shift their energies to completely different less traceable kinds of crime"
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