Prevention of crime is a special kind of social control
One of the main functions of the state is to fight against crime and its eradication.
In criminology, crime prevention refers to a wide range of interrelated mentioned activities conducted by public authorities and the public in order to eliminate of and address the causes of its generators. However, to date there is no single view of the fact whether the notion of «prevention» Crime Prevention to the phenomenon.
Crime is directly related to the causes and conditions contributing to it. Crime Prevention is designed to provide appropriate effect on these causes and conditions, so that, on the one hand, prevent them, but on the other – to halt or reverse the impact of the crime of those who have not yet been able to solve.
Prevention of crime is a special kind of social control to ensure the security of a legally protected property and is the development and implementation of targeted actions to identify and eliminate the causes of crime, the conditions conducive to such an act, as well as the provision of preventive effects on those who are likely to wrongful conduct.
Crime prevention and family
Speaking about crime prevention it is worth saying that family is very important in this process. Everything begins from family. Many families meet the important problems in upbringing children. Especially these problems are obvious in transferring period: children – young people. Mostly it is connected with the pubertal period. At this age people experience some serious changes in their psychology and physical state.
The psychological and physical developments are very frequent and that is why young people are always anxious and it is very difficult for them to make the decisions. On the other hand young people at that age begin to feel that they need respect from the side of their parents and peers. They want their parents to conduct them as full-fledged persons. At the same time the interests of young people are not in the frames of their family any more, they meet new people and enter society independently. Taking into account everything that was mentioned above it is worth concluding that young people demand much attention from the side of their family at that time.
It is the very time when parents should have a great impact on their children in order to achieve success in the relationship between them. Parents should understand the demands of their children, their spiritual needs. The most successful variant of upbringing is establishing good, human and emotional relationship between generations. The members of family complete each other and need attention. Only if their feelings towards each other are sincere, the stable and good relationship is possible. (Washton, 1991)
Family is very important in the process of the relapse prevention among youth.
There are many socio-cultural factors that cause the drug addiction. The most noticeable factor is the communication with people who had some experience of drugs taking. Such people are real and serious danger for youth. Usually young people trust their friends who have experienced drugs taking and they believe that it is really as good as they are told about. Sometimes people do not believe that drugs are impossible to give up and young people do not consider themselves to be serious drug-takers (Tucke, 2001).
How to improve the situation
To prevent theft crimes people should not make their dwelling available for the burglars. Very of ten it is possible to see when people make their dwellings beautiful but now safe enough. I think that people can organize community responsible for patrolling the area. I think that it can be appropriate to organize neighborhood community and to look after neighbor’s house. Some people are passive and indifferent and they do not call police when they see something strange close to the house of their neighbor.
As for businessmen the can support the communities and sponsor some projects. And by the way it can be a good business to organize such a company for patrolling the area.
Government can make everything possible for permitting such communities and companies to appear. In addition it can act together with the criminal justice system, passing the appropriate laws and acts.
So, to prevent crime government should pay more attention to social work in order to define the characteristic features of criminals. Great attention should be paid to this problem at schools and colleges. It is very important to increase the fines for the traffic violations and to take some special measures like imprisonment to punish criminals for alcohol taking while driving.
Crime is a social phenomena, it is necessary to assume that a successful fight against it may be only when the approach to it will be complex, both in its study, and in the development of preventive measures. The fight against crime in a broad social plane (in Criminology is, first of all, connected with the idea of prevention of crime) is the use of economic, social, cultural, educational, and finally legal. In doing so, it is clear that the political atmosphere in the society is something that could wipe out all forms and methods of management company, to bring them to chaos and collapse, or, conversely, lead to stabilization of the public (and public) of the organism.
By the types of crime prevention include (Lab, 2007): a) development and improvement of economic relations, technological processes and production equipment – industrial, agricultural, that is inextricably linked to improving the standard of living and material well-being of people, b) increasing the level of culture in society, improve their education, hence, education, the establishment of moral beliefs, based on all that the best that humanity has accumulated in this field over the entire period of its development. These measures, of course, are not directly aimed at combating crime.
References
Lab Steven P. , Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practices and Evaluations, 6th Edition, LexisNexis / Anderson; Sixth Edition edition, 2007.
Sutton Adam , Cherney Adrian , White Rob , Crime Prevention: Principles, Perspectives and Practices, Cambridge University Press; 1 edition, 2008.
Champion Dean J. , Crime Prevention in America, Prentice Hall; 1 edition, 2006.
Tucker Jalie A. , Donovan Dennis M. , Marlatt G. Alan, Changing Addictive Behavior: Bridging Clinical and Public Health Strategies, The Guilford Press; New Ed edition (2001).
Washton Arnold M., Cocaine Addiction: treatment, recovery, and relapse prevention , W. W. Norton & Company, 1991.