Crime prevention

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Crime prevention serves to prevent illegal acts. A distinction is made between universal (i.e. primary or general), situational or selective (also: secondary) and indicated (also: tertiary or post-incidental) prevention as well as perpetrator , situation and victim-related prevention.

The terms primary , secondary and tertiary prevention suggest a gradation and should no longer be used, since modern criminology is most likely to understand the pattern of selective or indicated prevention as crime prevention.

The programs developed by the federal states to combat the delinquency of threshold criminals are of particular importance, as is the professional training for crime prevention specialists funded by the European Union .

Preventive measures

For the measures in particular, see the table below.

Table according to Meier	universal or social or primary prevention	selective or situational or secondary prevention	indicated or tertiary prevention
Perpetrator -related prevention	Drug prevention Sport against violence - campaigns Control of narcotic access Control of access to media that glorifies violence	Police security measures Advice centers such as B. Addiction counseling	Divorce (see discussion) Withdrawal of custody Imposition and enforcement of punishment Offender assistance Therapy offers Youth stations
Situation -based prevention	Targeted urban planning: redevelopment of slums , reduction of uniformity, etc. Control of access to weapons Fighting crime in cashless payment transactions through the use of non-police organizations (KUNO)	technical aids such as steering wheel locks , immobilizers , alarm systems Video surveillance at hot spots such as train stations or banks private security services neighborly vigilance (also called " Neighborhood Watch ")	Confiscation of drugs , stolen property, etc. Withdrawal of the license Confiscation of the tools of the crime
Victim -related prevention	Self-defense and self-assertion courses for women Sex education	Instructions for self-help Personal protection Bulletproof vests Women's night taxi	Victim protection Women's shelters Emergency call for raped women Placement in a foster family

Within the framework of criminal law, general prevention and special prevention are used as justifications for the punishment . Tertiary prevention is carried out under the aspects of deterrence, improvement and security. An effective concept here are youth stations, as they were set up in Gera . The police , juvenile court assistance and the public prosecutor's office work together in a separate building. The aim of this cross-agency cooperation is an appropriate response, which is immediate, educational and preventive.

Fear of crime

Politics and the media contribute to at least a distorted picture of the extent of crime in Germany. The fear of criminal offenses is increasingly responded to with crime prevention.

See also

• Evaluation in crime prevention
• Police advice center
• Fear of crime

literature

• Beelmann, Andreas & Raabe, Tobias (2007). Dissocial behavior of children and adolescents: manifestations, development, prevention and intervention. Göttingen: Hogrefe. ISBN 3-8017-2041-1 .
• Stein, Stefan (2005): Field-active crime prevention - theory, practice, evaluation, project management. Cologne: WiKu-Verlag. ISBN 3-86553-065-6 .

Web links

• polizei-beratung.de - The police's prevention program
• 25 years of violence prevention in a united Germany - inventory and perspectives
• Link collection of the BKA on crime prevention
• Swiss Crime Prevention (SKP PSC)
• Crime prevention in BMI Austria
• German forum for crime prevention
• praeventiosntag.de - German Prevention Day - Congress for crime prevention
• Crime prevention Video recordings of a series of lectures. From TIMMS, Tübingen Internet Multimedia Server of the University of Tübingen .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wiebke Steffen : Expert opinion on the 14th German Prevention Day , Hanover 2009, p. 48: http://www.praeventionstag.de/html/GetDokumentation.cms?XID=365 .
2. ↑ cf. For example for Lower Saxony: Combating child and youth delinquency ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Joint circular of Lower Saxony Ministries Nds.MBl. No. 34/2009, p. 751.
3. ↑ Bernd-Dieter Meier : Kriminologie , 4th edition Munich 2010, § 10 Rn. 17th