Starter quiz
- What is the most severe sentence a judge can impose in the UK?
- Life sentence
- Death penalty
- Whole life order ✓
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- What do Norwegian prisons heavily focus on through their sentencing?
- 'Rehabilitation' ✓
- Why does the USA have different ages of criminal responsibility in place?
- Because the judges cannot make up their mind.
- Because some crimes are more common in certain areas.
- Because it is dependant on state or federal law. ✓
- Because it is dependent on criminal or civil law.
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- What two things do Norway invest heavily in to try and decrease reoffending?
- 'Prison and prisoners' ✓
- When did the UK abolish the death penalty?
- In the 1960s
- In the 1990s ✓
- In the 2000s
- It has never had the death penalty
- It has never abolished the death penalty
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- What can be analysed to evaluate the effectiveness of sentencing?
- 'Reoffending rates' ✓
Exit quiz
- Which is an example of education being used to prevent crime?
- Street lighting
- Warning stickers on doors
- Safer School Police Officers ✓
- Longer prison sentences
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- Which is an example of situational crime prevention strategies being used to prevent crime?
- Window bars ✓
- Intervention 22
- Death penalty
- Community sentencing
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- Which is an example of deterrence being used to prevent crime?
- Citizenship education
- Longer sentencing ✓
- Narrow roads
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- Match the word to its correct definition.
- strategy⇔a plan or approach designed to achieve a goal or solve a problem ✓
- intervention⇔an action aimed at changing a situation, often to improve it ✓
- situational⇔relating to or dependent on a specific setting or environment ✓
- What school subject has been shown to increase responsibility?
- 'Citizenship' ✓
- What type of crime prevention focuses on altering the environment to reduce opportunities for crime?
- 'Situational ' ✓
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Key learning 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.
- 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.
Common misconception
That only specific crime prevention strategies can work.
Humans are complex and so is crime, therefore a variety of different strategies are often used together to try and reduce crime.
Keywords
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
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