Year 10 - Citizenship
Are crime prevention strategies working in the UK?
What can we do to reduce crime?
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Unit Summary
Pupils explore how crime impacts the UK and consider the purpose of sentencing and whether current sentencing approaches in the UK are effective.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to evaluate whether crime prevention strategies in the UK are working.
Key Notes
- There are various crime prevention strategies used in the UK with variations in their effectiveness.
- Safer Schools Police Officers, intervention 22s and citizenship are all types of education which could reduce crime.
- Situational crime prevention strategies are things put in place to make crime more difficult or less successful.
- Deterrence is a strategy which aims to reduce crime by putting people off committing it due to the sentence.
Vocabulary To Learn
- strategy: a plan or approach designed to achieve a specific goal or solve a problem
- intervention: an action or set of actions aimed at changing a situation, often to improve it or prevent harm
- situational: relating to or dependent on a specific setting, environment, or set of circumstances
- deterrence: something that discourages people from committing crimes by making them fear the punishment or consequences
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- That only specific crime prevention strategies can work.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
There are various crime prevention strategies used in the UK with variations in their effectiveness. Safer Schools Police Officers, intervention 22s and citizenship are all types of education which could reduce crime.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'strategy'
a plan or approach designed to achieve a specific goal or solve a problem.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: That only specific crime prevention strategies can work. Correction: Humans are complex and so is crime, therefore a variety of different strategies are often used together to try and reduce crime.
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