When city officials and urban planners consider the characteristics of sites and situations that are at risk for crime, the factors that attract people to these sites and situations, and what equips potential criminals to take advantage of the illegal opportunities offered by these sites and situations, they are engaging in a practice know as:

The sites and situations are engaged in a practice known as situational and crime prevention.  

The situational and Crime prevention is the way to stop and deter and reduce the crime rate of a specific area and criminals of the area. It is applied by the governments to reduce crime, stop illegal practices, strictly enforce the law in the area and maintain the criminal justice law. Situational crime prevention also known as SCP focuses mainly on the more situations of offensive reasons.

Situational crime prevention (SCP) also work to decline the harmful effects of crime in the society by correcting the situational reasons behind the incidents in the environments where the criminal activities are in regular notice.

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