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‘Discuss the use of alternative strategies of crime prevention and reduction.To illustrate your answer use examples from specific types of crime and offending behaviour.’
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'Discuss the use of alternative strategies of crime prevention and reduction. To illustrate your answer use examples from specific types of crime and offending behaviour.' 'It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.' Beccaria, (1764) Historically speaking, the police were initiated as a crime-preventing force, rather than to investigate after the crime has been committed (Reiner, 1992:98/9; Mawby, 2000:107). Crime prevention strategies have been centred on the work of the police for many years, such as the codification of the criminal law in the late 1800's and the rationalisation of penal policy in Britain. This would be seen to include the use of imprisonment rather than transportation and the removal of capital punishment (Gilling, 1997:2). Since the police were created in 1829, they have increased in numbers and now receive more funding than ever before, yet until very recently, crime figures have been rising. On the 26th October 2001, the Guardian cited...
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