In the first episode, Violent Crime, Nick reveals the extent to which alcohol fuels violent crime on the street and in the home, but how there is also a lot that can be done to combat it. In each film of the series - episode two explores Theft and Burglary; and the final one, Anti Social Behaviour - Nick asks how likely we are to be a victim of crime. He follows the stories of individual victims filmed during the crime audit to see how they are treated by the police, prosecutors and the courts. Finally, he looks beyond the Criminal Justice System to see what can be done to stop crime happening in the first place.
Nick meets victims of crime - from the elderly who have been targets of 'distraction' burglaries on the edge of town to students whose shared accommodation proves an easy target for local drug users - and follows their stories, and that of the perpetrators, to see how they are treated by the police, prosecutors and the courts. Finally Nick looks beyond the criminal justice system to see how design solutions - from improving locks to tightening online security - can prevent theft and fraud from happening in the first place.
Nick meets victims of anti-social behaviour - from a family whose house has had eggs thrown at it and whose son has been badly beaten up, to a mother whose car tyres have been slashed after her son got in trouble with local drug dealers. He follows their stories over several months to see how they are treated by the police, prosecutors and the courts. And Nick looks beyond the justice system to see how it's possible to use design solutions - altering road lay-outs to deter joy-riding; improving the architecture of an estate to improve safety - to stop anti-social behaviour from happening in the first place.