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Situational Crime Examples

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There are many situations where the use of situational crime prevention target hardening or capable guardian are necessary. For target hardening, strengthening the security of an object, an example is to lock the doors to your car or house to prevent or minimize the opportunity for someone to break and enter or steal the car. Another example of target hardening in daily life is a home security system. In Shrewsbury, where I live, this is pretty common, sometimes, even the name of a security firm on an outer door serves to deter criminal behavior. We learned that simply locking your doors is not enough to prevent a breaking and entering when our next door neighbors were robbed during the daytime. An example of situational crime

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