Citizenship at key stage 3 (Year 7-9)
Unit 02: Crime
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Section 1: What are criminal offences? What causes people to commit crimes? (1)
Children:
- distinguish between criminal and non-criminal activities
- demonstrate knowledge of the effects of crime on victims, perpetrators and society
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Section 2: What are criminal offences? What causes people to commit crimes? (2)
Children:
- discuss and identify possible factors leading to youth offending and know that most people will grow out of such behaviour
- identify factors that might prevent people from committing crimes
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Section 3: What are criminal offences? What causes people to commit crimes? (3)
Children:
- discuss and identify factors leading to youth offending
- understand the concept of the 'peak age of offending'
- extract data from graphs and discuss crime statistics in relation to causal factors
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Section 4: What is criminal responsibility? What is the youth justice system? (1)
Children:
- understand the concept of the 'age of criminal responsibility', and discuss this critically
- understand the concept of 'aiding and abetting'
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Section 5: What is criminal responsibility? What is the youth justice system? (2)
Children:
- understand the basic structure of the youth justice system
- understand the need to treat young offenders differently from adult offenders
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Section 6: What is criminal responsibility? What is the youth justice system? (3)
Children:
- know basic aspects of the youth justice system from the point of view of the offender
- critically evaluate and discuss conflicting views about the purpose of the criminal justice system
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Section 7: Stereotypes and young people
Children:
- understand why there are 'stereotypes' of young people
- identify and discuss factors that can lead to negative stereotyping of young people
- understand that fear of crime is more prevalent than crime itself, and that this can have serious consequences for many people
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