Legal Studies - Criminal Law – Activity Booklet

A 6 page end of term activity booklet for students to complete while some of their peers went on work experience.
It includes:

• A match the definition activity for the following words: accessory, jury duty, summary offence, indictable offence, admissible evidence, white collar crime, burglary, bail, criminal intent (mens rea), prisoner and presumption of innocence.
• A table for students to research the age of criminal responsibility for juveniles for each state and territory in Australia.
• Some questions about driving laws for students to research the answers to.
• An image of a courtroom with the various people labelled which students are to use to explain the key roles within a court.
• Information about who can and cannot serve on a jury
• A match the definitions for the following terms: doctrine of precedent, barrister, custodial sentence, prosecutor, non-custodial sentence, special order, concurrent sentencing, cumulative sentencing, the Penalties and Sentences Act 1992 (Qld), community service, recidivism, antecedent
• Information about what bail is an da series of scenarios for students to read and decide whether they would grant bail in that case.

I have included a scan of my answers for the match the definitions pages.

NB: My lessons have been designed for use in Australian classrooms and will often feature examples from Queensland legislation.