ALevel Sociology- Situational crime prevention

This lesson focuses on Situational crime prevention. Unit 4 of the AQA sociology spec. The power point consists of 10 slides and is designed to fill a 90 minute lesson. The starter activity is a retrieval practice task which assesses student’s understanding of the Functionalist view of crime and deviance.

The lesson then goes on to explain what is meant by situational crime prevention, with reference to key terms and key sociologists as mentioned in the specification. For example; the idea of displacement, Felson (2002) explanation of crime prevention. Also explained in this lesson is the idea of environmental crime prevention. With reference to social and community crime prevention. In the middle of the lesson there is a true or false statement activity to assess students understanding.

The lesson then moves on to discuss the idea of surveillance- this links to the panopticon and Foucault. The lesson finishes with a fill in the blanks activity explaining the panopticon. Worksheets are included with this lesson.