a plan or set of actions designed to reduce the likelihood of crime occurring

a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common

What can communities do to help prevent crime?

Citizenship

What is a crime?

What reasons are behind criminal behaviour?

What is the role of the police in dealing with crime?

Is the media representing the reality of youth crime?

What does a successful crime prevention strategy look like?

Pupils consider what crime is, what causes criminal behaviour and how communities can help prevent crime. They also explore whether youth crime is really as serious as the media portrays.

What is crime?

Subjects which particular individuals may be sensitive to, eg, adoption, migration, bereavement or death, divorce, poverty, deprivation.

Depiction or discussion of sensitive content

Feeling unsafe or being asked to keep secrets.

Depiction or discussion of peer pressure or bullying

reduce crime by educating people about the law.

reduce crime by altering the situations in which crime can take place.

discourage people from crime by making the consequences clear.

Match the sentence starter to the correct sentence end. 

What am I describing? An illegal act that is punishable by law. 

What am I describing? A group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common.

Communities can rely on law enforcement alone to reduce crime.

Communities can reduce crime by education, situational changes and deterrents.

Crime prevention is most effective when used by individuals rather than groups.

Crime prevention strategies are only relevant in large cities, not small towns.

Which of the following best describes how communities can use crime prevention strategies?

Only the police can prevent crime in a community.

Communities can play a key role in reducing crime.

Crime prevention is only effective when carried out by law enforcement agencies.

Police efforts alone are enough to prevent all crime in a community.

Which of the following statements is true regarding crime prevention?

A youth mentoring programme could be an example of what type of crime prevention strategy?

Complete the sentence: In England, information about youth crime goes from age {{}} up until the age of 17.

What am I describing? The different ways we share and receive information on a large scale; this includes things like television, radio, newspapers and the internet.

media coverage of young people is twice as likely to be negative.   

they cannot interview them without an independent adult present. 

Which of the following is **not** one of the actions suggested by the Hertsmere Young Researchers to tackle negative media perception of young people and crime?

Who am I describing? A public force that helps keep the community safe; they work to prevent and investigate crimes, enforce laws and maintain order in society.

stop and search, arrest and entry, search and seizure

investigation, interrogation and confiscation

Which of the following are the three main police powers used to tackle crime?

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