Question 1

Discuss the need for comprehensive crime prevention initiatives,emphasizing how different strategies can be combined to most effectively reduce both the opportunities for crime as well as the root causes of criminal behaviour.

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Question 2

Citing research findings,explain why minimum mandatory sentences such as those handed out under California's "three strikes" legislation do not have significant deterrent effects on crime.

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Question 3

Discuss the routine activities approach to crime,including its assumptions.

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Question 4

Describe situational crime prevention,the assumptions underlying this approach,and the specific techniques used to prevent crime.

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Question 5

Identify and discuss critiques of rational choice theory and routine activities theory.

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Question 6

What are mandatory minimum sentences? Cite specific examples of offences that are subject to mandatory minimum sentences in Canada,including new provisions introduced by the federal Conservative government.

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Question 7

Describe the Perry Preschool Project and how it satisfies the dictates of crime prevention through social development.What were the results of the project according to the most recent follow-up?

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Question 8

Describe crime prevention through social development.Compare and contrast this approach to situational crime prevention.

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Question 9

One way to increase the risks of an offender being caught is to increase levels of formal or informal surveillance within a neighbourhood.

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Increasing levels of formal or informal surveillance can help deter potential offenders and increase the likelihood of catching offenders in the act, leading to reduced crime rates in a neighbourhood.

Question 10

What is meant by increasing the certainty of punishment? Provide on example of these strategies.To what extent does this strategy deter crime?

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Question 11

To what extent does imprisonment deter crime?

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Question 12

Describe the efforts undertaken to reduce gang violence under Boston's Operation Ceasefire,and document the effects of the program.

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Question 13

Discuss the Winnipeg Auto Theft Suppression Strategy and how it represents a comprehensive crime prevention approach.

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Question 14

Describe Project Hope and the main results of its evaluation.What implications does this project have for individualized deterrence?

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Question 15

Using information from General Social Surveys,indicate how the pattern of who commits what crime against whom fits with a lifestyle/exposure theory of crime.

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Question 16

Discuss the assumptions of rational choice theory and how this theory conceptualizes the decision-making process of offenders as to whether or not to commit crimes.

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Question 17

Discuss the assumptions of environmental criminology and how this theory conceptualizes the decision-making process of offenders as to whether or not to commit crimes.

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Question 18

Discuss the extent to which criminal laws are effective at preventing crime,citing research findings to support your views.

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Question 19

A fundamental assumption of crime prevention through social development is that opportunities make the criminal.

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Crime prevention through social development focuses on addressing the underlying social and economic factors that contribute to criminal behavior, rather than suggesting that opportunities alone make someone a criminal.

Quiz 15: Deterrence, Routine Activity, and Rational Choice Theories