what measures should b taken to prevent crime?

Keep areas with high crime rates well lit, maybe install security cameras. Increase police patrols in an area of high crime, prosecute small/petty crimes to the fullest extent of the law. Small/petty criminals are likely responsible for bigger crimes as well.

The first reality is that there will never be perfection in the world and, therefore, not all crime can be eliminated. Some people will be born with defective social judgement centers in their brain.

The second reality is that actions that are criminal in one place are innocuous in another. Just think of the various sharia laws that seem barbaric to westerners raised on political and religious diversity. Turkey, for example, has severe restrictions on freedom of speech. They have a crime called “insulting turkishness.” That would be equivalent to you going to prison for saying something negative about Americans.

The biggest reality, though, is that most crime arises out of a fundamental delusion suffered by most people to some degree. It is the delusion of considering one’s life as separate from that of others. It manifests as the feeling that it is okay to deprive someone else of their rights because it won’t affect me. This feeling is deluded on at least two main levels. The first is that we are all mutually interdependent. If you make your own shoes, you probably didn’t milk your own cow for breakfast milk, invent the language you are reading in, gather stones to build your house, invent the knowledge of how to build permanent housing, or breathe air or drink water that is unique to your individual cycle of life. Even the microbes in and on your body-at least 10 times as many as you have cells-have co-evolved with humans through history and in the present. It sounds yucky, but some of those microbes fight off bad bugs and others help us digest food.

The second level is that causes produce effects. No one ever escapes from that even though the effects aren’t always obvious to others or take a long time to appear.

The way to fight most crime, then, is through educating people to the reality of mutual interdependence and explaining that what you do to others, you are also doing to yourself.

A holistic approach. It’s best tackled using the creative 5W+H method. Where? When? Why? What? Who? and How? This helps u go deeper into each component. Eg who committed a crime? how old? what gender? What was the crime committed? What can be done to avoid it? Punishment? Educate? Name and Shame?

Hope this helps.

Amputate the criminals’ penises.

length o amputation should be directly proportional to degree of offensiveness of the crime committed.

I’m so-so on the eye for an eye thing the first poster said. Some people WANT to be punished *wink*

Confucius observed that prisons tended to be populated by the poor and uneducated. Therefore if you eliminated poverty and ignorance you would no longer have a need for prisons.

active neighborhood watch system. actively involving community cluster by cluster of neighborhood will be the best answer and sustainable option to prevent crime.

i don’t think measures work. i see them in the 7-11, and when they do a criminal lineup at the police station, they measure all the suspects. it just doesn’t seem to help to measure them. maybe they should try weighing them.

bring back morals in children so as to know what is right and wrong

punish the criminal respective to the crime he/she committed.

Behavior modification,,,,,,,,,,,,lol