Students examine the changes to the definitions of crimes in modern Britain. For example, the newly defined race related crimes, drug related crimes and driving crimes. It also looks at why some crimes have been decriminalised.
UPDATED & RE-VAMPED CONTENT IN LINE WITH THE 2026 SPEC
The 26 slide fully resourced lesson contains activities, tasks, practice exam questions, printable resources and all background knowledge:
- Slide 1: Title slide
- Slide 2-3: Warm Up brain teaser with answer included.
- Slide 4-5: Crimes Recap Quiz - Students have to decide which era of British history each crime fact relates to. Answers provided.
- Slide 6-7: Starter 1 - How changes in British society impacted crime and punishment. Includes a printable worksheet and instructions.
- Slide 8: Starter 2 - Students to discuss 5 questions about crimes in the modern period.
- Slide 9: Starter 3 - Why have attitudes towards some crimes/actions changed in the modern period?
- Slide 10-12: Task 1 - Changing definitions of crime table fill activity with a choice of printable resources.
- Slide 13-17: Printable fact sheets which can be spread out among the class to be used for the table fill activity.
- Slide 18: Challenge questions
- Slide 19: EXAM FOCUS - Two examples of the similarity and difference questions with suggested sentence starters.
- Slide 20: EXAM FOCUS - An example of a 12 mark ‘Explain why’ question with suggested structure guide.
- Slide 21: EXAM FOCUS - An example of a ‘How far do you agree’ question with suggested structure guide.
- Slide 22-23: Learning Review Activity
- Slide 24-25: Lesson fact sheets
- Slide 26: More from RA Resources
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