Crime Prevention Approaches for Police in the 21st Century

Critically analyse the
crime prevention
approaches that have
been developed to aid
the police in the 21st
century

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Crime can be referred to as the unlawful or illegal act which is punishable by the state or
the concerned authority. There is no universal definition to crime but the most popular opinion is
that the crime is the category which is created by law, or in simple words, it is something which
is declared by applicable or relevant law. It is a harmful act not only towards human beings but
also against the society, community and state. Such acts are mainly punishable and forbidden by
the law. There are mainly two essentials to the crime which includes actus reus and mens rea
which means guilty act and guilty mind (Armitage and Ekblom, 2019). This report will cover
various approaches to the crime prevention which is developed to aid police in 21st century.
MAIN BODY
Crime prevention is meant as different things to distinct people and there are many
policies and programs which are specifically designed to prevent the commission of crime which
includes arrest by police as the par of operation in order to deal with the gang problems. Crime
prevention can be referred to as the efforts made to prevent the crime or the criminal offending at
the first instance before an act have been committed. Both of these forms of the crime prevention
share the common objective of making an attempt to prohibit the occurrence of future act which
is criminal in nature. Likewise, prevention is considered as the fourth pillar of the crime
reduction together with institution of courts, police and the corrections. This classification now
draws the attention to the crime prevention as the alternative approach to more common
traditional response to the crime.
The crime prevention activities are mainly divided into three categories which includes
firstly primary prevention which involves the measures that focuses on making improvement in
the general well-being of the people and is aimed to stop the crime before it actually happens.
Second is secondary prevention which focuses on the intervention with youth and children that
are at risk of becoming the victims and offenders. Third is tertiary which includes the measures
that are directed towards those that are involved already with victimisation and crime (Clancey,
2020).
Approaches to crime prevention
Building the safer society is one of the strategic approach to the crime prevention that do
not address the criminal justice prevention in substantial fashion. It is because this strategy is