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Citizenship at key stage 3    (Year 7-9)

Unit 02: Crime

QCA

Objectives

Section 1: What are criminal offences? What causes people to commit crimes? (1)
Children should learn:
  • about criminal and non-criminal offences, and some of the characteristics of youth crime
  • that crimes often have serious consequences for their victims and perpetrators, even so-called 'victimless crimes'

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Section 2: What are criminal offences? What causes people to commit crimes? (2)
Children should learn:
  • that many factors lead young people to commit crimes

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Section 3: What are criminal offences? What causes people to commit crimes? (3)
Children should learn:
  • that offending can be age-related

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Section 4: What is criminal responsibility? What is the youth justice system? (1)
Children should learn:
  • about the age of criminal responsibility

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Section 5: What is criminal responsibility? What is the youth justice system? (2)
Children should learn:
  • that the youth justice system offers protection to young people, taking into account their age, immaturity and vulnerability
  • to listen carefully to, question and evaluate evidence (NSE)

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Section 6: What is criminal responsibility? What is the youth justice system? (3)
Children should learn:
  • about the treatment of young people within the criminal justice system
  • to use appropriate reading strategies to conduct research (NSE)

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Section 7: Stereotypes and young people
Children should learn:
  • about stereotypes of young people and the influence of media coverage over public perception

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Sections in this unit

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1. What are criminal offences? What causes people to commit crimes? (1)
2. What are criminal offences? What causes people to commit crimes? (2)
3. What are criminal offences? What causes people to commit crimes? (3)
4. What is criminal responsibility? What is the youth justice system? (1)
5. What is criminal responsibility? What is the youth justice system? (2)
6. What is criminal responsibility? What is the youth justice system? (3)
7. Stereotypes and young people