LESSONS

• 7. IS IT LEGAL? This worksheet encourages students to distinguish between highly illegal crimes and less serious misdemeanours. They categorise a number of crimes and rank them according to their severity.
• 9. THE LAW This lesson plan introduces students to the reasons for having laws. They describe a world with no laws and use their descriptions as a basis for identifying the law's protective function.
• 11. CHANGING LAWS This worksheet focuses on how laws change over time. Students identify and discuss some changes that have taken place.
• 13. JUVENILE CRIME Main trends in juvenile crime are explored through an activity which focuses on the main areas of juvenile criminal activity.
• 15. TYPES OF SENTENCE Students are introduced to the four main categories of punishment for juvenile crime. They match crimes to particular types of sentence.
• 17. JOYRIDING This lesson plan focuses on the implications of joyriding. Students consider a case history and discuss suitable punishment and the effect of the crime on the victim.
• 19. SHOPLIFTING Students focus on the range of emotions experienced by a teenage shoplifter and write a commentary to deter others from the crime.
• 21. VANDALISM This worksheet focuses on how deliberate damage to property can affect individuals and society. Students create a conversation highlighting the feelings of those involved in a particular case.
• 23. MUGGING This scriptwriting worksheet raises awareness of the effects of a mugging on its victim.
• 25. UNDERAGE DRINKING Students complete a storyboard focusing on the dangers of underage drinking.
• 27. HOUSEBREAKING This lesson plan looks at the effects of housebreaking. Students write a letter expressing their response to a housebreaking incident.
• 29. TOO YOUNG The focus of this worksheet is unlawful sexual intercourse. Students prepare monologues to show the points of view of a fifteen-year-old girl, her boyfriend and a parent.
• 31. ASSAULT This worksheet focuses on assault. Students make decisions about how to deal with a given situation.
• 33. DRUG ABUSE This lesson plan raises awareness of some of the issues connected with illegal drug use. Students consider possible consequences and design a leaflet to deter young people from using drugs.
• 35. JOIN THE GANG This worksheet looks at the illegal activities of girl gangs. It offers a problem page exercise focusing on ways of combating peer pressure.
• 37. CODE OF SAFETY Students produce a Code of Safety booklet for young females.
• 39. KEEPING SAFE Students practise the ideas outlined in the Code of Safety by roleplaying particular situations and summarising the main points.
• 41. SAYING NO This lesson plan offers a roleplay activity to practise the use of assertive strategies in resisting peer pressure and crime avoidance.
• 43. I CAN SEE YOU Students consider the use of security cameras and identify their advantages and disadvantages.
• 45. PRISON BLUES A letter-writing activity focusing on the emotional impact of a prison sentence.
• 47. PRISON FACTS Students complete a questionnaire to learn some facts about prison life and dramatise some of their findings.
• 49. PRISON LIFE Students complete a questionnaire on prison life and compare their assumptions with the reality.
• 51. CRUCIAL CHOICES Students consider real case studies of two prisoners and identify stages at which different choices could have been made.
• 53. A DAY IN THE LIFE This lesson plan presents information about the routine of prison life, to be used as the basis of a diary entry.
• 55. WILL IT WORK? This worksheet looks at some experimental punishments intended to prevent re-offending. Students give arguments for and against boot camps, tagging and curfews.
• 57. GENDER SPLIT This lesson plan raises awareness of the kinds of offences for which men are imprisoned and those for which women are imprisoned. Students consider reasons for the difference.
• 59. CULTURE GAP Students respond to deterrents that are or have been used in different cultures. They write reports to accompany given headlines.
• 61. IN COURT This worksheet introduces students to some of the words and procedures associated with courts and the legal system. They present a court scene based on a particular case.
• 62. APPENDIX 1 Kelly's Story and Kev's Story. For use with the Crucial Choices unit.
• 64. APPENDIX 2 A Prisoner's True Story. For use with the Prison Blues unit.