Environmental Criminology and Crime Prevention aim to prevent crime,

Environmental Criminology and Crime Prevention aim to prevent crime, not to cure offenders or reform society.
It is based on three contingent propositions:
• Crime is best understood as an interaction between the offender and the immediate
environment.
• Crime is therefore patterned according to the distribution of criminogenic environments
• These locations are the logical targets for interventions to prevent and control crime.
(Routine activity theory, Situational crime prevention, Crime prevention through environmental design, Crime pattern theory, Geometry of crime and Crime pattern theory.)