• Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students describe the public debate over the life sentencing of violent criminals, explain the arguments for and against life or longer sentences, and consider how useful those arguments are.
• Covers the changes in the law made by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act (LASPO, 2012) involving the two-strike rule and changes to the release of dangerous offenders.
• Covers the following key terms: Violent crime, Moral panic (extension), Theft (extension), Robbery (extension)
• Makes reference to the following key terms students should already know, to promote a spiral curriculum: Crime - Deviance - Official crime statistics - Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) - Victim - Offender - Sentencing - Prison - Rehabilitation - Deterrence - Restorative justice - Moral panic - Media representation of crime.
• Includes a DO NOW retrieval activity using up-to-date ONS crime data (year ending March 2026) with two graphs and full answers.
• Includes a for-and-against longer sentences for violent criminals
• Deeper thinking questions
• 12-mark question with detailed success criteria to write a paragraph
• ANSWERS TO MAIN ACTIVITIES INCLUDED.
• RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF THE PPT.
• Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students describe the public debate over the life sentencing of violent criminals, explain the arguments for and against life or longer sentences, and consider how useful those arguments are.
• Covers the changes in the law made by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act (LASPO, 2012) involving the two-strike rule and changes to the release of dangerous offenders.
• Covers the following key terms: Violent crime, Moral panic (extension), Theft (extension), Robbery (extension)
• Makes reference to the following key terms students should already know, to promote a spiral curriculum: Crime - Deviance - Official crime statistics - Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) - Victim - Offender - Sentencing - Prison - Rehabilitation - Deterrence - Restorative justice - Moral panic - Media representation of crime.
• Includes a DO NOW retrieval activity using up-to-date ONS crime data (year ending March 2026) with two graphs and full answers.
• Includes a for-and-against longer sentences for violent criminals
• Deeper thinking questions
• 12-mark question with detailed success criteria to write a paragraph
• ANSWERS TO MAIN ACTIVITIES INCLUDED.
• RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF THE PPT.
