Level 3 Crime Awareness

This is an introduction to Crime Awareness for teenagers and adults with special educational needs. It is a full course and includes student worksheets, teaching slides and other extras.

The resource is intended to introduce students to crime awareness, including:

• Personal values
• Wrongdoing and crime
• Irish legal and justice system
• Prison life

Topics include:

• How values help
• Wrongdoing and its impact
• Attitudes and crime
• Restorative justice
• Prisoners’ rights
• Effects of prison
• Prison officers
• Alternatives to prison

These worksheets are designed to cover the following learning outcomes:

1. Explain personal values and factors which influence them.
2. Identify situations of wrong doing and their impact on the individual, family and society.
3. Describe the difference between wrong doing and crime, and personal attitudes to crime.
4. Discuss factors which influence participation in offending behaviour and criminal behaviour.
5. Describe the impact of crime on victims’ feelings.
6. Explain restorative justice, its purpose, the process and the people involved in the process.
7. Discuss prison life, its impact on the prisoner, the family and friends, daily routine, prisoners’ rights and prison officers’ duties.
8. Describe elements of the Irish legal justice system including arrest, court appearance, verdict, Juvenile Liaison Officer, Community Garda, underage crime.
9. Role-play a scenario involving negotiation of agreement by all parties following committing an offence.
10. Describe the learning gained from participation in the role-play prior to reaching agreement.
11. Discuss the application of the justice system to young people and how it might be improved.
12. Discuss the effectiveness of prison and its alternatives on behaviour.

Can this resource be used online?
This resource is a digital resource. If you have purchased this resource and would like to use it for online teaching, you have permission to do so. A fillable and printable version is included. Students can type in their answers online, or worksheets can be printed. Teachers can also use them for whole-class teaching using a projector or interactive whiteboard.

What materials are included?
All components are available in the zipped folder, i.e. student worksheets and teaching slides.

Student Worksheets: 125 Pages
Teaching Slides: 73 Slides