Situational crime prevention is based upon the idea that crime is often opportunistic and aims to limit the opportunities for offenders to engage in criminal behavior. Situational prevention highlights the importance of targeting very specific forms of crime by identifying, manipulating and controlling the situational or environmental factors. It is also based upon assumptions about the nature of offenders.
Situational crime prevention has four key elements, including:
• Three key opportunity theories—routine activity, crime pattern and rational choice theory;
• Analyzing specific crime problems and contributing factors, identifying possible responses, selecting and implementing of the most appropriate response and evaluating and disseminating the results—think S.A.R.A.
• Twenty-five situational prevention techniques
Write a 10-page essay that discusses these elements
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