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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