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Subject: Geography Year: 9

Start date: 4th September 2017 Hand-in date: 22nd September 2017

Expected duration of project: 3 weeks / 12 hours

Unit of Study: Geography of Crime Title: How safe is my street?

Outcome of learning:

Students will have learned about the social, economic and environmental causes of crime; as well as evaluated a range of strategies to prevent crime. [Live in a low crime area – DON’T PANIC – just explain why].

To demonstrate their understanding of this topic, students are required to do the following:

• Be able to answer the two core questions to answer the title:

‘What are people’s feelings about crime in my local area?’

‘What has been done to reduce crime in my local area?’

• Identify their own geographical questions

• Collected a wide range of primary data including questionnaires, photographs and interviews with either a Neighbourhood Watch Coordinator or a Crime Support Officer.

• Independently researched and evaluated a wide variety of secondary data sources about crime in their local area; including ‘Direct Gov’ and ‘Up My Street’ websites.

• Use their own initiative in deciding how to present this information (ideally six or more techniques)

• Use a variety of ICT skills (internet searches, DTP, graphs using spreadsheets and movie maker)

• Extensive and correct use of geographical words to describe and explain patterns found on graphs

• Demonstrates an ability to explain links between land use and the opportunities for crime.

• Reach substantiated conclusions (use facts and figures)

• Be able to evaluate their work and how it could be improved.

• The enquiry is organised in a logical sequence.

This work enables you to reach the following levels:

| |Student: |Teacher: |

| |Tick the level |Tick the level |

|7-8 |- Achieved all task requirements with little guidance | | |

| |- Extensive range of primary and secondary data collected incl. interviews | | |

| |- Wide variety of presentations used (5+). | | |

| |- Detailed analyses with place-specific explanations and use of a wide range of key terms,| | |

| |incl. social, economic & environmental causes and impacts & evaluation of how sustainable | | |

| |crime prevention measures are in your area | | |

| |- Substantiated conclusions | | |

| |- Excellent organisation & evaluation of skills as a reflective learner | | |

|6 |- Achieved all tasks with some guidance | | |

| |- Very good range of primary data with some secondary sources of evidence incl. websites | | |

| |such as Police.uk | | |

| |- A good range of presentations used (3-4) | | |

| |- Detailed analysis with some attempt to be place-specific; using a range of key terms. | | |

| |- Detailed conclusions | | |

| |- Very good organisation & evaluation | | |

|5 |- Achieved most tasks with guidance | | |

| |- Evidence of some primary data collection. | | |

| |- Attempts to present results using 1 or 2 techniques. | | |

| |- Sound conclusions consistent with research | | |

| |- Good organisation, evaluation and use of key terms | | |

|4-3 |- Only small parts of the task achieved | | |

| |- Limited research about crime in their local area. | | |

| |- Simple technique used to present their data. | | |

| |- Simple statements made about the results | | |

| |- Limited organisation & evaluation. | | |

| |- Simple conclusions made. | | |

WEEK ONE: Section 1 - Introduction

Introduction: The purpose of the following tasks is to help you write an introduction to your crime enquiry.

Task 1: Writing your introduction

1. Use the writing frame below to help you write an introduction to your enquiry…

Introduction and aims

Crime happens all over the world – in cities, in towns and in the countryside. In this enquiry I will investigate …

I will attempt to answer the following questions:

1. What do people feel about crime in my area?

I expect to find that …

2. What is being done to reduce crime in my area?

I expect to find that …

The location of my enquiry

The map below shows the area that I will be investigating. This area is found in____________ (name street and area of Leicester). The houses on this street are mainly______ (detached / semi-detached / terraced?). The types of people that live in the area include _______ (young or older families / single people / couples?). My perception of this area is that it is a (safe / unsafe) place to live because ___________.

[Add a map of your local area by accessing Google Maps and type in your postcode.

Print Screen, Copy, Paste and Crop the map to size into your word document.

Add a title and arrow pointing to your street].

Anstey Lane

A map to show the location of …

What might be some of the causes of crime in my local area?

Crime is defined as ….

There are many causes of crime. In order to make sense of this, they can be categorised in to social, economic, environmental and political reasons. I aim to outline some of these below:

The social causes of crime include …

The economic causes of crime include …

The environmental causes of crime include …

The political causes of crime include …

In general, I believe the major cause of crime is …. because …

WEEK TWO - Section 2 – Data collection

Task 2: Questionnaires [Primary Data]

The purpose of the following task is to help you design a questionnaire to survey attitudes about crime in your local area and enable you to answer question 1 of your enquiry.

What are the different kinds of data?

Match the heads with the tails.

|Primary data |This is data that has been put together by someone else, for example a bus |

| |timetable. |

|Secondary data |This is information you collect usually in numbers or categories. |

|Quantitative data |This is data that you have collected for yourself for example, questionnaires |

| |and traffic counts. |

|Qualitative data |This doesn’t involve numbers. It deals with peoples opinions. |

Quantitative questionnaires are those which allow only a number of responses. In most cases, these are more useful to your enquiry

Qualitative questionnaires are those which are open ended and allow people to give their personal opinions and thoughts.

How to write a questionnaire...

1. Don’t make it too long (8 to 10 questions).

2. Make sure the questions you ask are short and relevant.

3. The questions will need to be written so that the respondent will:

a. Understand the question.

b. Know how to respond.

4. Consider how you could use the information you collect (charts or graphs).

5. Avoid asking people for personal information.

6. The best questions either:

a. Give people a choice of how they could answer or

b. Require a short or even one word answer.

How Safe is my Street?

My questionnaire.

I am trying to find out how people feel about crime and what is being done to reduce crime in my area.

Tick the boxes.

1. Have any of these crimes taken place in your area?

Burglary Assault Car theft

Drug crime _________ ___________

Other ___________________________________

2. Have you been affected by any of these crimes?

Burglary Assault Car theft

Drug crime _________ ___________

Other ___________________________________

3. How safe or unsafe do you feel in the following areas?

Give each of the following a number between 1-5.

1= Very safe 5= Very unsafe

Your area in the day Your area at night

City Centre in the day __________ at night

Bus station in the day __________ at night

___________________ __________________

Add your own questions.

4.

5.

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Are you Male Female ?

Age

Answer the questionnaire for yourself first. Then ask your family and your neighbours what they think about crime in your area- complete in different colours or on a separate sheet.

Homework: carry out your questionnaire by asking 10 people that you know who live in your local area.

Task 3: Street Surveys, Photographs & Interviews [Primary Data]

The purpose of the following task is to help you collect information about crime prevention in your local area – question 2 of your enquiry.

Street survey (homework)

1. Use the survey street below to complete a security survey for 10 houses in your street.

2. Each house scores each 1 if the security measure is present 0 if it is not.

3. Add up the values to give a total score out of 7.

|House |1 |

|Burglar alarm |6 |

|External light |5 |

|Double glazing |4 |

|Gates to house |3 |

|Garden Wall |2 |

|Open view of house |1 |

|Off street parking |2 |

3. Enter your results in the table.

4. Click on the chart wizard and select column graph.

5. Click on next. Step 2 click on next.

6. Step 3, select titles. Create a title and label your axes on the graph.

7. Click on next. Step 4, as an object in sheet 1.

8. Copy and paste your document into word.

9. Describe what your graph shows.

10. Try to explain why your results have turned out like this.

See the writing frame on the following page:

Use the writing frame below and the instructions in brackets to help you complete the analysis for your crime graphs.

Step 1

In order to find out the different crime prevention methods used on my street I …… (outline how you collected this information).

Step 2

The most common types of crime prevention used by people on my street were … (state area and quote a figure).

The least common type of crime prevention was … (state area and quote a figure).

Step 3

The reason why _________ was the most common type of prevention was ….

The reason why _________ was the least common type of prevention was…

(think about the age of the houses on your street, how much each crime prevention method costs, the type of area you live in).

Step 4

In order to answer the question ‘How safe is my street?’ my results tell me that ….

(consider the extent to which the results you have just analysed can now help you answer the question).

Task 8 – presenting photographs

1. Photographs should be used to support the data either in the questionnaire or the street survey.

2. Each photo should have a title and labels or annotations should be added to highlight what the photograph shows.

A photograph to show crime prevention measures on my street

Task 9 – presenting internet research

1. This will depend on the data you have collected.

2. A good idea is to use the websites listed above and find crime figures in your local area and compare with the national averages.

3. Describe and explain similarities and differences between the data.

Use the websites below to add detail to your project. For instance;

Website: police.uk

➢ Aerial photo showing the pattern of crime in your local area

➢ Aerial photo showing the pattern of individual crimes in your local area

➢ Transfer to a word document, add titles and writing to describe and explain the pattern and causes of crime in your area

Website:

➢ Click ‘Ward Profile’ and type your postcode – this will give you data tables outlining type of work and qualifications for your area.

➢ Click ‘Local Authority Profile’ on the front page of the website and type your postcode – this will give you data tables outlining type of work and qualifications for Leicester City.

➢ Use the statistics in Excel to create graphs, transfer to word and describe and explain what it shows. Try to make comparisons between your Ward [local area] with Leicester City.

WEEK THREE: Section 4 – Conclusion & Evaluation

Task 10 – Conclusion

1. Put the title ‘Conclusion’ at the top of your page.

2. Refer back to the 2 questions you wrote in your introduction.

3. Type out each question and underneath it summarise what you have found out about in your local area – YOU MUST INCLUDE FACTS & FIGURES TO SUBSTANTIATE = L7.

4. Finally refer back to your main enquiry question and consider ‘how safe is your street?’

5. Need help?: See detailed writing frame in the Appendix

Task 11 – Evaluation {SWPT ANALYSIS]

In all subjects, to be able to evaluate is really important, if you are going to improve as a leaner and always achieve high marks.

|Strengths |Weaknesses |

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|Keywords: organisation, creativity, independence, geographical questions & key terms, geographical |Keywords: organisation, creativity, independent work, geographical questions & key terms, geographical |

|theory, planning, report writing |theory, planning, report writing |

|Opportunities |Threats |

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|Keywords: geographical questions, interviews, comparisons, websites |Keyword: biased websites, |

|geographical key terms, variety of presentations, independence, | |

|controlled assessment | |

Appendix: Additional writing frame

How safe is my street? Conclusions

I have completed an enquiry about crime in my local areas. The main aim of my enquiry was to find out ‘How safe is my street?’.

I studied my local area and my street in particular. This area is found in…….(name street and area of Leicester). The houses on this street are mainly……(terraced / semi-detached / detached).

My first thoughts are that this area was that it is a (safe / unsafe) place to live because………….

In my enquiry, I used at least two questions, which would help me find out the aim of the enquiry. These were:

1. What do people feel about crime in my local area?

2. What is being done to reduce crime in my area?

I will now summarise what I have found out for both questions.

What do people feel about crime in my local area?

I collected this information as a questionnaire. I asked 10 people in my street how they felt in different places at different times of the day.

The survey showed that in my local area, ___ people felt very safe during the day time and only ___ person felt a bit unsafe or very unsafe. The main reasons for this might be that _____.

The questionnaire survey also showed a difference when asked about how people felt about my local area at night time. No one felt very safe and only ___ felt ‘safe’. There were ____ people who felt ‘a bit unsafe’ or ‘very unsafe’. The main reasons for this might be that __________.

What is being done to reduce crime in my area?

For this question, I collected information about the security measures that people had for 10 houses on my street. The results are shown in the table below:

|Type of security |Total |

|Burglar alarm |6 |

|External light |5 |

|Double glazing |4 |

|Gates to house |3 |

|Garden Wall |2 |

|Open view of house |1 |

|Off street parking |2 |

This shows us that the most popular way of preventing crime was ___________ ________ and ____________ _______.

The main reasons for this might be ___________________.

Overall Conclusion: How safe is my street?

From answering the two questions, I now think that my street is (safe / unsafe). This is (similar / different) to my thoughts at the start of the enquiry.

The main reasons why I think my street is (safe / unsafe) are ________________________________.

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[Use your class notes from these sheets to help you]

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How safe do you feel in your local area during the day / night?

What are the different crime prevention methods used on my street?

Garden walls create a ‘defensible space’. This means a clear boundary between properties that makes it more obvious if someone is trespassing.

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