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This article focuses on criminal prevention approaches. It is impossible to consider the activity of an effective fight against crime independently of the prevention policies and programs. The study will review the approaches to crime prevention and try to explain how an effective crime prevention approach should be. The article states that an effective crime prevention model should be in the capacity to include all the variables of crime and a multidisciplinary approach. This also demonstrates the need to develop a comprehensive crime prevention model in the prevention of crime. The integrated crime prevention model should include the individual (the individual’s criminal tendency), the type of crime committed, the place/environment of the crime, the possibilities of crime, the victim exposed to the crime, the crime control and surveillance strategies, and all the elements related to the crime, such as the socio-economic, cultural and social dynamics of the crime. Therefore, the integrated crime prevention model should include all the situation, social, society-oriented and developmental crime prevention approaches from preventive approaches. Another aspect mentioned in the study is the need for preventive approaches to be more proactive than reactive.