Crime and Punishment UK. Powerpoint looking at the different preventions and punishments and the relative merits of each. Individual and group activities and youtube links.
Ethnicity and Crime. Powerpoint presentation with activities and youtube links. Focuses on the Stephen Lawrence case and why Afro-Caribbeans are over-represented in the prison population. Worksheet with reasons for criminality which should be cut out to show why Afro-Caribbeans are over-represented. Could also be used as a group memory task.
PPT looking at whether Britain is socially mobile. Pupils stick in boxes from slide two and annotate around them with examples and statistics from slides 3 and 4.
PPT looking at the reasons for the change in the divorce rate. It focuses on changes in the law compared with changes in society. Tasks included and video link included.
Lesson outcomes:
1) You can annotate and add to the model essay to demonstrate whether social class is fixed in the UK.
Better than Expected Progress;
2) You can categorise the information correctly and add sociological terms and theories to the model answer.
Photocopy slide 6 as a handout. Pupils stick slide 7 in their books to annotate.