Lesson video

Hello and welcome to today's citizenship lesson.

I'm Mrs. Barry, and I will be teaching you today.

We are looking at a series of lessons about what is crime and today's lesson is less than six of six, looking at what does a successful crime prevention strategy look like.

I must just say that this lesson does cover, the issue of murder and if that's a sensitive topic to you, then do check in with a trusted adult before starting or during this lesson.

So that you can feel comfortable as we cover it.

Make sure that you are distraction free.

So you've turned off any apps or notifications, and you have got yourself into a quiet place so that we can learn as successfully as we can.

And hopefully you've got everything you need with you today.

So your brain should already be with you and something to write with, such as a pen or a pencil and something to write on, such as some paper.

When you're ready to go, then we can make a start.

Today's lesson looks at what a successful crime prevention strategy might look like.

And we're going to run through some different crime prevention strategies, thinking about what might be appropriate and how they might be grouped together.

We're going to have a look at a case study from the Ben Kinsella Trust, looking at knife crime and the approaches they've taken to, prevent knife crime as a crime prevention strategy.

And we're going to evaluate the effectiveness of the Ben Kinsella Trust approach.

Thinking about active citizenship and how each stage can lead to a successful strategy.

And then we'll do some activities to check your understanding.

We're going to start on today's lesson by looking at crime prevention strategies, and you might have done lesson five with me previously, but in lesson five if you didn't, we looked at a range of strategies which might prevent crime in our communities.

And it's possible to group some of these together to ensure a successful impact is had.

So on the screen, there's a variety of crime prevention strategies, educating others, increasing police presence, campaigns, surveillance, warning posters, locking things away, severe penalties, security and lighting.

And if we group some of those together, you get a better effect, a better impact.

And so we could have a look at doing that with this.

And in the crime prevention strategy that we look up today, from the Ben Kinsella Trust.

We see them combining, educating others, campaigns and severe penalties.

So why is it good to do that? Well it creates a layered effect.

And so you can combine all those different things to ensure a greater impact is had.

Severe penalties for example, doesn't work well on their own, unless others are aware of them.

So you have to combine severe penalties with some kind of education to ensure that people are aware of what those severe penalties are.

In this lesson, we'll consider the crime prevention strategy, which combines campaigning with those severe penalties and educating others.

Before we look at the crime prevention strategy, we need to consider what would make a crime prevention strategy successful.

This is very similar to considerations made when we enact active citizenship.

So you can see my image here shows you the active citizenship cycle.

It should follow, a clear on all steps, starting from the issue or idea, to the final outcome.

Step one, should include careful planning, working out the issue, what can be done and how you will know it's been a success at the end.

Step two, is taking action or implementation, following the plan and making adaptations where necessary.

Finally, the final step is about the outcome and the outcome should be measured, allowing reflection and evaluation of the action taken.

We can then use these points to evaluate if the crime prevention strategy you've looked at, you've worked on, has been a success.

As I've already mentioned, we're looking at the Ben Kinsella Trust, who campaigns for action and justice for those affected by knife crime and educates young people so they can make positive choices to stay safe.

So they essentially went through the processes of active citizenship to ensure that they put together a successful crime prevention strategy and they're campaigning to prevent knife crime.

And we're looking at their strategy to prevent knife crime and evaluate the successes they've had in this lesson.

So we're going to start by looking at that introduction to their work.

The Ben Kinsella Trust was set up following the murder of Ben in 2008, we have set out to educate young people about the dangers of knife crime, and also to campaign for action and justice for those affected by knife crime.

We have developed an interactive space working with school children to see the impact that knife crime has.

Nobody has set up a space like we set up and we feel that that's where we stand alone in terms of innovation and giving young people particularly a really unique experience.

So it about being able to-- We were learning about knife crime, and what's the best thing to do about it.

We saw the story about Ben Kinsella and what happened to him.

He was an innocent boy, who got stubbed for no reason.

That has a significant impact on young people because rather than just tell them not to do something, they're living, feeling and experiencing that.

We're in a city, London school.

And there's a lot of knife crime in our area so I find it a really worthwhile exhibition to attend.

I think it's important for us to start giving those messages early so they can start making those informed choices when they're older.

If we don't address knife crime much earlier, that means having a revolving door of young people ending up in prison or much worse.

We stand as a really good example of what prevention and early intervention can do in terms of tackling this problem much, much earlier.

So as we saw in that video, they have got a really clear aim and they're striving to campaign to prevent knife crime.

And their strategy is really clear, has some really clear objectives, and really clear steps that they're going to use to try and enact change.

With every successful strategy, there was a clear starting point.

An idea or issue.

And in this case, it came from Ben.

Ben was just 16 years old when he was stubbed to death in a horrific act of senseless violence on the 29th of June, 2008.

Ben had been out at a local pub to celebrate the end of his GCSEs with friends.

On their way home, he and his friends realised they were being followed by three older teenagers.

Scared and worried they decided to run home.

But the older teenagers chased after them.

They were seeking revenge for an altercation, an issue that happened previously in the pub that had taken place earlier that evening.

Ben and his friends had absolutely nothing to do with that incident.

But when the older boys caught up with Ben in an entirely unprovoked attack, they stubbed him to death.

Ben was the 17th teenager to be killed in London that year.

From this, the Ben Kinsella Trust, came up with a clear vision and they said that no family or community should suffer the loss of a life as a result of knife crime.

And they've set up a campaign, with three key action plans.

So firstly they said, young people's behaviours and perceptions in relation to knife crime are positively influenced.

They said the increased action to tackle the causes of knife crime.

And they also said they wanted to increase understanding and awareness of the causes and consequences of knife crime amongst young people, practitioners, the public and the government.

And this shows their clear vision, their main idea of the Ben Kinsella Trust.

And it's a starting point of their clear crime prevention strategy.

Now within that, they're looking at three key methods.

They're looking at education, to educate, collaboration, to collaborate and campaigning to campaign.

And we're going to start with task one.

Checking we understand what this would include.

So I'd like you, when you're ready to pause this and spend about three or four minutes connecting the correct method with the statement in the blue text below.

And when you're ready, when you had to go at that, you can press play.

So welcome back, hopefully you've tried to connect those as best as you can, and we will see if you got them right.

So here educate, is teaching others so directly through an exhibition or through resources for schools.

And if you were watching the clip earlier, you'd seen the exhibition, within the introduction showing some of the things they've done.

We've got collaboration.

Working together and sharing information with others, for example, they chose to work with practitioners or teachers in schools.

And then we have campaign, which is an organised set of actions to achieve a goal.

For example, sharing a message or influencing others using the media.

So that would be newspapers or online social media, for example.

So well done if you've got those right.

If not, then here we go those are the answers.

Now when you consider what a strategy, whether a strategy is successful or not, you have to investigate what has happened as a result of the actions taken.

The Ben Kinsella Trust, exactly this, and found that they had a positive impact in relation to knife crime and issues relating to it.

And if we think back to the active citizenship cycle, the outcomes were really important in terms of evaluating whether you'd succeeded in your original idea.

So here's some statistics that they have.

So seven out of 10 young people would try and stop a friend that was thinking about carrying a knife.

95% of the young people stated, that visited the exhibition, stated that it made them think more about what choices would make them safe.

Nine out of 10 young people stated that the exhibition that they put together had contributed to their learning of the consequences of knife crime.

Two out of three young people felt more confident about the decisions to make a situation when feeling uncomfortable or unsafe.

And nine out of 10 young people stated the exhibition had contributed to their understanding of joint enterprise.

So by the Ben Kinsella Trust, putting this exhibition together, for the young people to go and visit, to be educated and made more aware of the issues surrounding knife crime.

Those were their outcomes.

So a significant number of young people felt they had learned something, taken something away, and found that they've been educated on the issue.

And another interesting point here, and we talked about this when we looked at, different strategies that you could use to prevent crime is the idea of tougher sentencing.

And the Ben Kinsella Trust, this statement.

And it says that, our campaigns have led to changes in the law.

We have successfully lobbied, which means to persuade, central government, to raise the mandatory life sentence for knife related murder from 15 to 25 years.

Commonly known as Ben's Law.

And we continue to influence the very highest level.

So they had campaigned, they educated young people, and they also worked on the issue of tougher sentencing.

So they worked with government, they persuaded government that this needed to change and they changed the law to make it to.

There was a harsher sentence for knife related murder.

For task two, we're going to think about how this was a successful crime prevention strategy.

This is over on the worksheet.

So if you wanted to go over and print this off, to complete the task, then you can do that.

Or you could draw this out yourself.

That's up to you.

So what I'd like you to do is I'd like you to add to the columns underneath technique and outcome.

What was used to fulfil the strategy and what the outcomes were.

So the strategies are listed.

So they chose to educate, to campaign and to push for tougher penalties.

So the technique is how they did that.

And the outcome is what happened as a result of what they did.

So when you're ready, pause the video and have a go at that task.

Probably about five, maybe even 10 minutes for you to think about this, go over what we've talked about and when you're ready, you can press play, and we we'll have a look at what you've done.

Okay welcome back.

So we're going to have a look at, what techniques and outcomes were used.

And so your table might look something like this.

So for the strategy of educate, they put together an exhibition for students to attend to so that schools could take their students and they also have risen resources for schools to use.

They worked with practitioners, teachers.

The outcome of that was, that young people were more aware of issues relating to knife crime and joint enterprise and joint enterprise is the issue of, if one person commits a crime and other people were with them and didn't do anything to stop it.

Then they are, in a sense responsible for that crime as well, because they would there so joint enterprise.

The strategy of campaigning.

Well the technique there is they came up with an end goal.

They had a clear plan and they monitored the outcomes.

So essentially, they did active citizenship that we have looked at earlier.

And the outcome of that was that they achieved harsher penalties and there was a greater awareness of knife crime.

And then finally penalties.

They lobbied central government.

So they went to influence their members of parliament and they persuaded government that a change was needed.

And so the outcome of this, was Ben's Law.

And knife related murder penalty rose from 15 to 25 years.

So well done if you recognise that.

If you didn't get all of it, you've got some of it, that's perfect because I've added some information in here as well, just to make you see some of the changes that were made a bit clearer.

We're going to do another task now because what I want us to do is to evaluate their success because this whole lesson, is looking at what a, a successful crime prevention strategy looks like.

And to assess whether it was successful, you need to be able to evaluate.

And so we're going to write an evaluative paragraph, which considers how successful the Ben Kinsella Trust has been in their goal, their aim, to prevent knife crime.

And again, if you look over from the worksheet, there is a sheet for you to print off and use, or you could draw this out yourself.

That's absolutely fine.

So within an evaluation, there were three key things you need to bear in mind.

What was the aim? What was the action? And what was the impact? So what were they trying to achieve? What did they do? And what change did they make? And it's not a descriptive paragraph.

So you're not just telling me what they did.

An evaluation means you need to make a judgement.

So for their aim, do you think their aim was clear? For their action, were they good forms of action? Could anything else have been done better? And their impact, was it positive? How big was it? Could they have done more? Was the impact significant? And generally when we write an evaluative paragraph, it's very good, good practise to ensure that you give a final judgement.

So overall, bearing in mind their aim, their action and their impact, was this a success or not? And why do you think that? So when you're ready, you can pause the video, write a paragraph, using the layer I've given you or if you don't want to write a paragraph, it's absolutely fine just to lay it out like this and put your thoughts into each box.

And when you've done that, after about five, 10 minutes to do that activity, press play, and we will have a look at some feedback for that task.

So these are some of the points that you might've included.

Well done for giving that a go.

Evaluations aren't the easiest thing to write, but hopefully the structure there gave you some pointers that made you feel a bit more confident, in giving that a go.

So this really should be written into paragraphs.

And you should think about your spelling, punctuation and grammar when you're writing longer pieces.

So the aim here, you might've included things like campaigns for action and justice, and they want to educate young people about knife crime.

And so it was a clear aim as a result of the death of Ben Kinsella.

And it did have an end goal.

So they have purposes that they wanted to achieve.

They had some good actions, really clear, well set ups.

So they set up their exhibition for young people and some resources for schools to use.

They lobbied government, which is where they persuaded, influence government on the law, on knife crime murder.

And there was a good range there of actions with strong potential impact.

So what they had chosen to do have the potential, the impact of being really good.

And so the impact itself, the law was changed and they gathered statistics to prove and show a range of changes and they were measurable and they can continue to have an impact a long time after their initial idea.

The last thing to do on this evaluation is that overall judgement.

And that is completely up to you to decide.

So overall, this crime prevention strategy was or was not successful because? Now personally, my conclusion here would be that it was a success.

They managed to lobby government and have an impact on the law, which is quite a high level, place for them to make change.

And they're having continued change with students, making them think about not only knife crime, but other issues that relate to knife crime.

Their impact is far wide and with lots of young people.

Well done, that brings us to the end of today's lesson.

Looking at what does successful crime prevention strategy look like.

We have considered some of the crime prevention strategies that we also looked at in lesson five, thinking about the appropriate ways you can prevent crime.

And we have selected the ones that applied particularly to today's lesson.

Looking at the case study of Ben Kinsella, and we looked at the actions that they took to prevent crime and raise awareness to ensure that knife crime was reduced.

And we've looked at successes of their campaign.

And with that, we evaluated the successes and identified what they had done, and also started to think about future tasks that could be done to further improve the work so well done for looking at all that, hopefully you have got a good understanding of what a successful crime prevention strategy looks like, and you'd feel competent talking about that in the future.

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Before you sign off, make sure you complete today's exit quiz.

And I look forward to doing another citizenship lesson with you in the near future.