We will be discussing three social disorders, graffiti, youth gangs and alcohol related street based violence.
It is agreed among criminologists that the best response to youth deviance is to divert them away from the criminal justice system.
Most of the debate surrounding social disorder involves public space.
A limitation is that most solutions put forward by, including environmental crime prevention experts increase rather than decrease social exclusion.
The best prevention in the crime prevention involves rather than exclude youth and takes into account, all opinions of all users including youth.
Graffiti has been a long term …show more content…
Youth ‘gangs’, in particular, ethnic conflict are long term issues and is the focus of recent debate across Australia. However, there is discussion about how serious these ‘gangs’, are in comparison to the United States.
It could be argued that problems may not just exist in preventing crime but changing the way media reports the issues and the police response to dealing with these issues.
Community based approaches have several dimensions that include ‘direct service provision’ and attempts to establish ‘pro-social relationships at the local level’.
The focus of much media focus and public concern is the Sudanese youth in Melbourne. There needs to be a discussion on the legitimacy of these.
Some would argue that the police response rather than any ‘gang’ problem should be the centre of concern.
Crime prevention solutions can play an important part in diffusing possible …show more content…
Longer term reductions in social harms needs the sustained execution of strategies, and strategies that include the great number of factors that lead to aggression and violence.
Successful interventions rely upon building a combination of partnerships and community engagement, immersed within the local context along with formal and informal styles of regulation.
However, developing and coordinating an integrated approach can be difficult given the competing interests of different groups and the normalisation of alcohol consumption in western countries such as Australia. It will be challenging to generate a cultural shift in regards to alcohol consumption.
It is essential to develop multifaceted approaches that encompass CPTED, situational and social prevention measures. Addressing crime and safety problems that occur in public spaces involves ‘conscious decisions’ about the public spaces we wish to promote. It also involves what is best practice in regulating events that may at times become disruptive or disorderly, and how we might negotiate the conflict incorporated with the uncertainty of public space. Whether it is graffiti, youth ‘gangs’ or alcohol street related violence, measures can be adopted that offer moderately minimal approaches in which to restrict the degree of social disorder and social harms related with public