The purpose of this kind of a strategy is to decrease the opportunity for crime and to have an impact on crime and the setting for crime so that

• committing crime is made more difficult,
• committing crime involves greater risks (in particular the risk of apprehension) or
• committing crime results in lower benefits.

Crime prevention measures may also be directed at the possible victims of crime. For somer persons, the risk of being a victim of crime is considerably greater than it is for other persons, for example due to the living environment, way of life or the lack of possibilities of protecting oneself against crime. The purpose of supporting the victim is to decrease the material and immaterial harm caused by crime.

Another strategy of crime reduction: social crime prevention