Target Hardening: Ron Clarke (Left Realist) Be realistic and focus on the immediate crime situation and reduce the opportunities to commit crime by: 1. focus on specific crimes 2. manage / alter the environment where the crime occurs 3. increase the effort / risks and reduce the rewards of crime. Because people make a rational choice when deciding whether to commit a crime.
Designing out Crime: Marcus Felson & the NYC Bus Terminal
Lots of crime at the NYC Port Authority bus terminal.
Design it out by removing opportunities for crime.
AO2: Application
AO3: Evaluation
Situational crime prevention just displaces crime:
to another victim (target)
to another place (spatial)
to another time (temporal)
by another method (tactical)
and / or to another type of crime (functional).
Also, situational crime prevention ignores the crimes of the powerful.