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Situational Prevention Approaches

open access: yes, 2016
Like all human behavior, sexual violence and abuse involves interactions between the characteristics and dispositions of the actor (offender), and the characteristics of the situation in which the behavior (offense) occurs. Although this fundamental principle has been recognized in the major theories of sexual offending, research, policy, and practice ...
Stephen Smallbone, Smallbone, S
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Situational Crime Prevention

2017
Abstract Situational crime prevention (SCP) is a criminological perspective that calls for expanding the crime-reduction role well beyond the justice system. SCP sees criminal law in a more restrictive sense, as only part of the anticrime effort in governance.
Joshua D Freilich, Graeme R Newman
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“Situational” Crime Prevention: Theory and Practice

The British Journal of Criminology, 1980
From Clarke, R.V.G. (1980). Situational crime prevention: Theory and practice. British Journal of Criminology, 20, 136-147.Conventional wisdom holds that crime prevention needs to be based on a thorough understanding of the causes of crime. Though it may be conceded that preventive measures (such as humps in the road to stop speeding) can sometimes ...
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Situational Crime Prevention

Crime and Justice, 1995
Situational prevention seeks to reduce opportunities for specific categories of crime by increasing the associated risks and difficulties and reducing the rewards. It is composed of three main elements: an articulated theoretical framework, a standard methodology for tackling specific crime problems, and a set of opportunity-reducing techniques.
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Situated Prevention: Framing the “New Dementia”

Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 2018
This article is about the recent and profound changes in the conceptualization of dementia, especially the turn towards prevention. The main argument is that more attention needs to be paid to “situated prevention” — the framing of internationally circulating data on the “new dementia” in different contexts.
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Situation awareness for violence prevention on campuses

2014 IEEE International Inter-Disciplinary Conference on Cognitive Methods in Situation Awareness and Decision Support (CogSIMA), 2014
The choice of appropriate actions by university administrators to prevent violence threat on campuses requires an in-depth understanding of the current situation. For an administrator to take an appropriate action to prevent an impending violence, an analysis of the situation is needed.
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Situational Prevention of Poaching

2014
1. Introduction, AM Lemieux 2. Rhino Poaching in Kruger National Park, South Africa: Aligning Analysis, Technology and Prevention, Corne Eloff and AM Lemieux 3. Does Opportunity Make the Poacher?: An Analysis of Neo-Tropical Illicit Parrot Markets, Stephen Pires and Rob T. Guerette 4.
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Beccaria and Situational Crime Prevention

Criminal Justice Review, 2014
This article compares Beccaria’s and Situational Crime Prevention’s (SCP) claims across six dimensions. Both perspectives question harsh penalties, embrace crime reduction as a goal, and view some individuals as possessing agency and rationality. The latter two points distinguish them from most other criminological theories that are not focused on ...
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Situational Crime Prevention

2014
Nick Tilley, Aiden Sidebottom
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