Social Crime Prevention

Crime is a social phenomenon. Crime can not be controlled, it can be highlighted.

Criminality represents the totality of human acts through which criminal norms have been violated and have occurred in a given territory and within a certain period of time.

Evaluating numerical or qualitative crime can not help us determine the rate of crime.

In order to establish the crime rate, we must have at least 2 elements: the element to which we report and the element that is reported.

The crime rate is a number that signifies all the offenses (crimes) committed on a given territory in a given time unit.

There are crimes that are committed but are never known:

1) the author can not be identified.

2) the offenses are committed but not brought to the attention

Social crime prevention programs

They are named in this way because historically these are the first experiences in the field of prevention both in terms of adult crime and juvenile crime.

They are called social prevention because they were initiated by social workers outside any interventions from the services of the Police, and institutions belonging to the justice system, generally outside any institutional initiatives.

In other words, these programs were initiated and developed by social workers, being directed against the inadaptability of individuals in their home or evolution environment. The long duration to which individuals and their social environment are subjected.

The greatest extent of this kind of programs we encounter in the late 60s of the last century.

Within our crime prevention activities, we can speak of two types of actions and measures:

1) punctual measures

2) Coordinated measures - measures that are more or less permanent

To programs that have limited the organization of leisure time for young people in particular, starting from the idea that individuals spend their time pleasantly and thus do not think at the same time committing

There are some forms where citizens understand the limited force of official police resort to another form of protection: in the beginning it was in the form of self-protection and in time it came to the use of private security services.

Crime prevention has been said in a formula that each of us should understand "prevention is a business of all."

Prevention is aimed at informing people of the facts of constitute offenses and its consequences.

Prevention is carried out individually and collectively (society in general).

Preventive activities at an individual level can produce much better results, but Are more difficult to achieve. Therefore, the vast majority of preventive activities have addressability, a collectivity, or group of individuals. Geographical areas or areas within a city, so-called risk areas where the number of those most likely to commit offenses being higher than the general average.

There are a number of secondary factors that influence the effect of prevention, namely:

- The person or the people who make the prevention

- The level of training

- The chosen moment

- The chosen