Crime Prevention - Environmental Crime Prevention | A-Level Sociology

welcome to this tutor to you sociology topic video on crime prevention focusing on environmental crime prevention environmental crime prevention became a popular form of crime prevention in the mid 1980s drawing its influences from the work of wilson and kellings on broken windows theory broken windows theory suggested that physical signs of degradation in an area

such as broken windows increase the likelihood of that area having a higher rate of crime it falls broadly under the right realist perspective of crime and deviance focusing on eliminating the physical signs of disorder in an area based upon the assumption that this will give residents pride in the local neighborhood and be

less likely to commit crime in that area broken windows theory had suggested that the visible signs of neglect in an area encouraged levels of crime and that these signs of disorder were more likely to be found in areas of high deprivation that had often been underfunded or ignored by local government one of the focuses of broken windows was

to act rapidly to fix these signs of disorder and to crack down on those that were responsible which ushered in zero tolerance policing policies zero tolerance policing looks to tackle some of the signs of disorder in an area by shutting down bars with reputations for disorder closing down nightclubs moving on street paddlers beggars and the homeless to

give an impression of order within an area removing any signs of deprivation in an area made people feel safer and this was seen in new york in the 1990s under the mayorship of rudy giuliani who increased the size of the police force in the city and took a proactive role in cleaning up the streets