Varied collaborative tasks for students to explore how a Bill becomes an Act of Parliament. Students match pictures to descriptions of different types of bill and sort cards of the stages in the legislation process (includes an interactive version).

Is the law-making process confusing your Year 10s? Simplify things with this engaging lesson. Which bills will your students introduce and just how will their peers react?

This lesson will develop students’ understanding of crime and the law. Students will examine why there has been an increase in certain types of crime during the recession, taking into account circumstances that may prompt people to turn to crime. Students will also consider different forms of punishment.

In the first of this series of three lessons, students learn about the role and purpose of the criminal justice system in relation to young people. Accompanying PowerPoint word scramble activity.

Following on from Lesson 2, students take turns to role-play magistrates themselves and are faced with a selection of case studies of youth offending to pass their sentence upon.

Looking at the social and economic causes of crime in the UK. Creative activity in which student sketch their own local areas and pinpoint crime hotspots.