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Effects of Crime

ClassNotes Team 1 MIN READUPDATED 13 JUN 2026

Security Education JSS1 Second Term

Sub-theme: Common Crimes and security management

Week 7

Effects of Crime

Performance Objectives:

Students should be able to:

1. List the effects of crime.

Content

Effects of Crime

1. Slow growth: Crime brings crawling growth to a person and society as a whole.

2. Lack of development: High rate of crime in a particular environment prevents the development in such an area and makes it remain undeveloped.

3. Unrest: This is a state of trouble, confusion and turbulence among people or in a place.

4. Fear: People living in such an environment where there is a crime will live in fear. Also, criminals will be unrest due to fear of being arrested.

5. Lack of establishment: Where there is a high crime rate, investors will not want to establish or invest in such an environment.