ABSTRACT
Crime prevention is an area that has received a great deal of attention over the last two decades. From that analysis, a better understanding of how to prevent crime and reduce the risks associated with it have evolved. Crime prevention has been defined by the Crime Prevention Coalition of America as:
All effective crime prevention efforts must begin with a planning model that defines the process to be undertaken. Generally, that process involves a systematic analysis of the crime problem and the conditions that generate it, a review of the services and activities in place to tackle those conditions and ways to improve them, rigorous implementation of the program, and evaluation of the impact of the program on crime and its implementation so that improvements can be made (Waller & Welsh, 1998).
