They fight because we let them! Applying a situational crime prevention model to barroom violence.

"Every male in there is your competition": young men's perceptions regarding the role of the drinking setting in male-to-male barroom aggression.

The present paper explores young men's perceptions regarding the influence of the bar setting on male-to-male barroom aggression. Focus group interviews were conducted with 27 young men aged 18-25 in London, Ontario, Canada. Participants were given a description of a typical incident of aggression between men in bars and asked to discuss why the incident happened. The following themes pertainin...

Situational Prevention of Violent Crime: Theory and Practice in Australia

This paper looks at examples of recent violence prevention initiatives in Australia and relates these to the situational prevention model. The situational prevention matrix is useful in classifying existing violence prevention approaches, pointing to new ones and providing a framework for understanding the factors relevant to violence and its prevention. Although there have been a range of effo...

Evolutions of Crime Prevention Strategy in Democratic Model of Criminal Policy

In the light of Discontinuing Strategy, new crime prevention approaches has directed by the democratic model of criminal policy to limit the requirements of security – oriented paradigm. The fact that has preferred situational crime prevention on social crime prevention referring to the confrontation of democratic countries with terrorist crimes, crime rhizomatic, domination of new powers and b...

Major Theoretical Explanations of Interpersonal Violence & Prevention Implications 6 Situational Perspectives on Violent Crime among African Americans 11 Summary of Violence Prevention Recommendations

Situational Deterrence: Fear during the Criminal Event

The link between situational crime prevention and deterrence theory can be found in the fear experienced by the offender in certain crime situations. This paper starts with an examination of deterrence theory. It is argued that perceptual deterrence is flawed in three respects. First, it is not time-specific enough, being incapable of grasping the short-term impact of variations in sanctions. S...