Situational Crime Prevention

A glance at the crime phenomenon and the statistics thereof in the world shows that social injuries, delinquency and crime rise are a global phenomenon with which all countries are somehow involved. Therefore, the present world is seriously in need of a firm resolve and comprehensive effort to cut down the opportunities, discourage the criminal motives and maintain some kind of situational prevention of crimes. The situational prevention of the crimes is important because the cost of this type of prevention is to degrees less than that of the penal punishment of the criminals. The goal of the situational prevention is limitation of the opportunities for committing crimes. The present research emphasizes on non-penal methods for crime, and primarily surveys different classifications of crime prevention in view of the importance of prevention and its definition within the following categories:-Definitions and expressions /-Role of religion in crime prevention /-The police, threats, modern technologies and crime prevention /-Role of police in situational prevention /-Introduction of strategies for situational prevention and advantages and disadvantages thereof /-Obstructions and problems of law enforcement forces to encounter with the phenomenon of situational crime preventionThe eventual conclusion is that situational approaches for crime prevention has achieved admirable success in the short period of its application and shall serve more efficiently through offering a non-penal approach as compared with penal preventive policies.Supporters of the situational prevention have proven in the short life of its application that reduction of the opportunities can be useful in the fright of the criminals and prevention of the crime. In the meantime the weak points of the situational prevention can not be denied. Therefore, human experience has emphasized the mixture of the two situational and social preventions toward achievement of better results.Finally, the article in an attachment introduces one of the initiatives of the law enforcement forces (familiarity with police counseling centers) toward crime prevention.