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The justice system
Legislation: the law-making process
Varied collaborative tasks for students to explore how a Bill
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Y10 Y11 | Law and justice
Alternatives to UK legislation
Two challenging lessons in which students evaluate the law-making
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Y10 Y11 | Law and justice
Crime and the recession
This lesson will develop students’ understanding of crime and
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Y10 Y11 | Law and justice

Criminal Justice System 1 – What are the reasons for youth crime?
Using an example for inspiration, students create a causational
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Y7 Y8 Y9 Y10 Y11 | Law and justice
Criminal Justice System 2 – What is the purpose of the Criminal Justice System?
Students reflect on why society punishes people who have committed
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Y10 Y11 | Law and justice
Criminal Justice System 3 – How does the Youth Justice System work?
Through a YouTube video, a quiz and a sequencing activity,
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Y10 Y11 | Law and justice
For or against the death penalty
Students confront the harsh reality behind the death penalty
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Y7 Y8 | Law and justice

How can we tackle gun crime?
Students expore the causes behind the recent rise in gun crime
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Y7 Y8 | Law and justice

James Bulger: punishment or rehabilitation?
Will your Year 9s agree about how society should respond to cases
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Y9 | Law and justice

Making laws
Is the law-making process confusing your Year 10s? Simplify things
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Y10 | Law and justice

Punishments that fit the crimes
Students consider the relative gravity of various offences,
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Y7 Y8 Y9 | Law and justice
Riot!
Students will explore what happened in the UK riots in August
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Y10 Y11 | Law and justice | Rights and responsibilities

What causes crime?
Looking at the social and economic causes of crime in the UK.
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Y7 Y8 | Law and justice

What's the point of prison?
Two lessons' worth of material, including a card sort, online
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Y9 Y10 | Law and justice | Rights and responsibilities
Young people - the need for a different approach? Lesson 1
In the first of this series of three lessons, students learn
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Y7 Y8 | Law and justice

Young people - the need for a different approach? Lesson 2
Following on from Lesson 1, students begin to learn about the
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Y7 Y8 | Law and justice

Young people - the need for a different approach? Lesson 3
Following on from Lesson 2, students take turns to role-play
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Y7 Y8 | Law and justice

Young people and the law
Exploring the links between young people and crime, students
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Y7 Y8 | Law and justice
