Situational Crime Prevention

This is a short clip (the third of three) from the "Situational Crime Prevention" segment of our new 7-part DVD "Short Cuts to Sociology: Crime and Deviance" (www.onlineclassroom.tv). It's aimed at UK A-level students (17 - 18 year olds basically). The segment features Kate Painter (Cambridge University) talking briefly about her Stoke-on-Trent study (with David Farrington) that tested the effect of improved street lighting on crime.

The quality of this clip isn't that great (I've kept it reasonably small for web streaming) but the DVD quality is a great deal better (although, of course, you have to pay for that - it's worth it, however because you get around 40 minutes of film discussing key sociological concepts and issues: moral panics; Durkheim and the functions of crime; hate crime; crimes of the powerful; situational crime prevention; gender and crime; crime and the night-time economy. Well worth £35 of anyone's money. In fact, it's so good I;d buy it myself if I didn't already own two copies...).

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Education

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• education
• social science
• sociology
• a-level
• crime and deviance
• situational crime preventionl
• sociology 101
• kate painter
• street lighting