Starley Cross Community Safety Project

A classification of 25 situational prevention techniques was presented by Clarke, Eck and Cornish (2003). There are currently five different strategies including five different techniques each that aim to reduce the crime. The techniques include both hard and soft strategies. Hard strategies include interventions that aim to make the criminal event impossible or more difficult to commit. On the other hand, soft strategies include interventions aiming to reduce the situations that cause the increase of person’s motivation to offend (Frelich 2014). The fourth and fifth columns added recently are mostly referred to as soft crime prevention strategies and are addressed to the Wortley’s (1997 2002) critique that certain situations increase a person’s motivation to commit a crime (Frelich 2014). Some of the strategies presented above will be used to remove the opportunities to offend in the area of Starley Cross.