Crime and house prices

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CW 29th November 2006
Crime and house prices

• Lesson Aims
• To be aware that crime influences house prices
• 2. To understand how we can display crime
  figures using a range of maps.

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Did you know?
Ten best places to live in the UK Winchester
Horsham Tunbridge Wells Harrogate South
Cambridgeshire Orkney East Hertfordshire Epsom
and Ewell Eastleigh West Dorset
Ten worst places to live in the UK Hackney
Tower Hamlets Merthyr Tydfil Newham Islington
Middlesbrough Nottingham Strabane Blaenau
Gwent Manchester
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Winchester
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Winchester
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Winchester
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Merthyr Tydfil
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Merthyr Tydfil
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Merthyr Tydfil
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Comparison of Winchester and Merthyr Tydfil

• Using the data provided, compare the differences
  in house prices in Winchester and Merthyr Tydfil.
• What effect do you think levels of crime have had
  on house prices in each place?
• Why?

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How reliable is this comparison?
Rural/ Urban? Types of housing? Demand for houses
in the area? Recorded and unrecorded crimes?
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Crime Maps
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Write a paragraph to explain how useful the
following crime maps are.
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Police departments collect information about
crime incidents and display that information on
detailed maps. This allows them to analyze crime
problems and identify solutions.These crime
maps are increasingly available to public. In
Texas the police provide crime maps that not only
display the date and the offense, but also the
street address where the incident occurred.
Should Crime Maps be made available to the
public?
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PROBLEMS!!

• Privacy issues (should the public have easy
  access to sex offenders' names and addresses?)
• What types of crime information should be
  available to the public?
• Increased access to information provided by
  technology is a threat to the privacy, and even
  safety, of victims. In some cases, the
  information may embarrass or stigmatize. In other
  cases (burglary, for example), the information
  could lead to re-victimization.
• SO
• While the general public ought to be able to
  access information that will help identify crime
  problems and patterns, access to specific address
  information is usually not necessary.

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• Homework

Revise crime for exam