Year 7

What is a crime?

Year 7

What is a crime?

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Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we will consider what we understand by the word 'crime'. We will consider the difference between right and wrong and identify where our ideas of this come from. We will also differentiate between civil and criminal law to show what a crime really is.

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5 Questions

Q1.
What do we mean by 'morality'?
Another phrase we use for laws
Being affected by someone or something else
Directions for a meeting place
Correct answer: Your sense of what is right and what is wrong
Q2.
What do we mean by 'influence'?
Another phrase we use for laws
Correct answer: Being affected by someone or something else
Directions for a meeting place
Your sense of what is right and what is wrong
Q3.
What age do we become criminally responsible for ourselves in England?
Correct answer: 10
12
18
21
Q4.
A civil dispute would be against:
Correct answer: An individual
Correct answer: An organisation
The country in which you live
The government
Q5.
What is more serious? A summary offence or a indictable offence?
Correct answer: Indictable Offence
Summary Offence