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Crime Prevention Final Vocabulary
Crime Prevention Vocabulary
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Criminal Justice
Undergraduate 3
12/07/2010

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Access Control
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idea if only allowing people who have legitimate business in an area to enter; reduces the opportunity for crime by increasing the effort needed to enter and exit a building or area for the purpose of committing crime.
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Activity support
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actions taken to build community atmosphere, efforts that enchance the ability to recognize neighbors and identify needs of the community; enchance social cohesion among residents and contribute to a communal atmosphere, which works to eliminate crime and other common problems; includes efforts such as street fairs, community days, and other social events.
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Alley gating
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erecting gates on alleys that run behind homes and businesses, therby restricting access to residents or other legitimate users
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CCTV (Closed circuit Television.
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systems that allow the active or passive surveillance of activity.
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CRAVED
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Concealable, removable, available, valuable, enjoyable, and disposable.
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defensive space
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proposes "a modelwhich inhibits crime by creating a physical expression of a social fabric which defends itself"
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escape
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the ability of both offenders and victims to escape from an area before and or after an offense.
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hot products
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items that attract attention and are targetedby thieves
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image
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refers to building a neighborhood or community that does not appear vulnerable to crime and is not isolated from the surrounding community.
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incivility
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refers to various factors involved in disorder and community decline; two general categories of incivility outlined in the literature are physical and social; physical signs of incivility include the deterioration of buildings, litter, graffiti, vandalism, and abandoned buildings and cars; social signs of invility include public drunkenness, vagrancy, groups of loitering youths, harassment, (such as begging or panhandling), and visible drug sale and use.
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milieu
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idea that placement of a communtiy within a larger, low-crime, high-surveilance area will inhibit criminal activity.
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milieu
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motivation reinforcement
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actions taken to build a community atmosphere; efforts that enhance the ability to recognize neighbors and identify needs of the community; enhance social cohesion among residentsand contribute to a communal atmosphere, which works to eliminate crime and other common problems; includes efforts such as street fairs, community days, and other social events
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natural surveillance
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involves designing an area that allows legitimate users to observe the daily activities of both friends and strangers; permits residents to observe criminal activity and take action.
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Operation Identification
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property marking to increase the difficulty for offenders to dispose of marked items
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OTREP
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Opportunity is the result of TARGET, RISK, EFFORT, AND PAYOFF; assumption that offenses can be avoided when there is a high risk of aprrehension with little potential payoff
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Product Design
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prospect
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the ability of indivisuals to see an area; areas that offer greater prospect should engender less fear and victimization than locations that limit sight lines.
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Reducing Burglary Initiative (RBI)
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PROGRAM that relies on local commmunities to identify the causes of the burglary problems in thier area and to develop appropriate interventions; includes a wide range of interventions, many of which are physical design changes, such as target hardening, the installation of alley gates, lighting improvements, fencing, and property marking.
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refuge
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the presnece of absence of concealment, in which offenders could hide from potential victims; provides both hiding places and protection
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Secure By design
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smart guns
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target hardening
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territoriality
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citizen patrols
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Community Anti-drug programs
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Guardian Angels
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Kirkholt Burglary Prevention
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Kirkholt Burglary Prevention
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National Night out
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neighborhood watch
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paraochial control
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public control
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private control
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Safer Cities program
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steet block
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whistle stop
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benign displacement
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cognitive mapping
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CRAVED
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crime attractors
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crime dispalcement
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crime fuse
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crime generator
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crime pattern theory
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diffusion of benifits
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distance decay
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edges
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environmental backcloth
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functional displacement
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google maps
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Google streetview
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journey to crime
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malign displacement
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nodes
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paths
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perpetrator displacement
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Rational Choice Thoery
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Routine Activites perspective
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social/crime template
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soft determinism
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tactical displacemnt
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temporal displacement
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territoral displacement
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antipatory benifit
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crime newsletters
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crime newsletters
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information lines
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responsse generalization
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Taking a bite out of crime
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brutalization effect
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Caps
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civil abatement
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community policing
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Operation Ceasefire
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order m
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order maintenance
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problem solving
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Project Safe Neighborhoods
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pulling levers
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SACSI
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SARA
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Weed and Seed
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alternative schools
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bullyng
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feeble-minded
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G.R.E.A.T
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Head Start
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meta-analysis
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PATHS
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PATHS
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peer mediation
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Perry Preschool program
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Project PATHE
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Reducing Conflict Creativity Program
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tracking
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