Situational Crime-Prevention Measures to Environmental Threats

摘要

Crimes against nature are far-reaching, dangerous and complex. Therefore, efforts to detect and deter environmental crimes should be effective. The purpose of this chapter is a presentation of possible forms of Clark's model of situational crime-prevention techniques in the field of environmental crime. The proposals are based on the analysis results of the review of detected environmental threats in Slovenia and the consequences that arise in this connection. Situational crime-prevention has, in combination with rising of people's aware-ness on crime and other forms of threats, proved to be quite an effective form of prevention. These are four types of measures – aggravation of access, increasing the risk of the offender, reducing the potential for damage (reduction of perpetrator's profit) and prevention of excuses that someone did not know that a specific action is unacceptable, prohibited or illegal. These situational crime-preventive aspects of the response to environmental tiveats represent a novelty in the Slovenian practice of crime prevention methods in the environment protection field. The findings of the debate can be used in the planning of crime-preventive measures with regard toenvironmental threats. Furthermore, these measures represent a very useful starting point for all further research and development of programs, resolutions and other documents about responding to environmental threats.