Deviance, Crime & Prevention

Crime and deviance comprises those actions which are deemed so damaging to tile interests of he community that the state determines that it must take a direct role in identifying and acting against the criminal and deviant. When we consider the prevention of crime, we are looking at a set of event joined only in their proscription by statute. The view that society must by radically changed for crime control to occur may also be found among some practitioners within criminal justice, but there it has coexisted with the more popular rival that the greatest prevention possibitilies lie in changing the hearts and minds of established or potential offenders by control or reform. All foeories of crime are also foeories of crime prevention. specific primary prevention measures would continue to by applied as tiiey became available. By foe analysis of fast changes in crime rates, numerous crime prevention successes would have been identified, common lessons learned, and the morale of crime preventers enhanced.