crime control
Reducing illegal activity
Crime control refers to policies and practices aimed at reducing criminal activity, primarily through deterrence, enforcement, and punishment.
The term often appears in contrast to due process approaches that emphasize protecting individual rights.
A crime control model prioritizes efficient prosecution and public safety over procedural safeguards: The new legislation reflects a crime control philosophy.
- law and orderGovernance through enforced rules
- policingEnforcing laws officially
- broken windowsDamaged transparent barriers
- stop and friskPolice search without arrest
- neighborhood watchResident-led area surveillance
forensic science · cold case · biometric identification · patrol · sentencing guidelines · three strikes · arrest · surveillance · community policing · probation · prosecution · conflict resolution · defense · interrogation · incarceration · plea bargaining · trial procedures · undercover operations
- policingpatrol, police powers, arrests, police officer, arrest
- punishmentpunishment, prison, jail, execution, hanging
crime controlrehabilitation
Recovery from injury/addiction
restorative justice · reintegration · community healing · harm reduction · decarceration
crime controllawlessness
Absence of governing rules
anarchy · disorder · permissiveness · chaos · decriminalization
crime controldue process
Guaranteed judicial fairness
civil liberties · defendant rights · constitutional safeguards · constitutional protections · presumption of innocence
crime, control, crimes, criminal, criminally, criminality, criminalize, criminalized, criminalizing