“Computer expert jailed after hacking victims'

webcamsMatthew Anderson

accessed personal data and photographs after sending out millions of virus-infected emails”

How can you prevent crime?

• Why can crime be easy to commit?

• How can you prevent crime happening?

• What is target hardening?

What is the perfect environment for crime to occur?

1. Burglary of a home

Social Environmental Economic

How can you prevent crime from happening?

1. What can companies do to prevent crime?

2. What can happen in a local area to prevent crime?

Use your ideas from the first question to help you

Target hardening

“making the target harder to get at”E.g. the target could be a warehouse and you could put up a large fence around it.

Key Question:How can housing contractors design a block of houses which reduce the risk of crime. (think of the individual house and the area around

the houses)

Your taskUsing the photograph of your house do the following1.Annotate all the features

which prevent crime2.Annotate all the features

where crime could occur and why

How can you prevent crime?

• Why can crime be easy to commit?

• How can you prevent crime happening?

• What is target hardening?

DATA

CRIME

THEFT

ARSON

FRAUD

This powerpoint was designed for Year 9 class on Geography of Crime. The quote on slide one was from the BBC news website.

Pupils need a photograph of their house for the activity on slide7J.Carr 2nd Department at St Bees School