Citizenship Lets Party Aims of Lets Party 1

Citizenship Let’s Party!

Aims of Let’s Party 1) To provide you with an opportunity to look at how choices and behaviour can impact on people 2) To extend your knowledge and understanding of crime and its consequences 3) Work in groups, pairs and individually, consider and value opinions, listen and put forward your own opinions and ideas

Let’s Party! You each have an identity card – you are that character for the whole of this session u All the activities relate to you in that role u

u Read u Take your identity card carefully turns to read your character details to your group. Make sure you listen, you need to know who each character is for the next task u Write down the connections between each character

Quick Quiz! 1. What does ASBO stand for? Antisocial Behaviour Order

2. At what age can you have an ASBO? Anyone over the age of 10 years

3. What is an ABC? Acceptable Behaviour Contract

Let’s Party!

Franc’s parents are going away for a night to their caravan in Wales. Franc decides it would be a great chance to invite some friends around to listen to some music.

Franc asks a few friends, including Nick. They decide to get a few cans of lager from the local shop and just ‘chill’ out.

Some people at school overhear Franc and Nick talking about their ‘get together’. These students decide to gate crash the party and invite more people.

They advertise the party on Myspace

It goes out on the web for anyone to read!

Including directions of how to get there!

Whose fault is this?

u Imagine this happens to you! u You see your party advertised on Myspace! u What would you do? u What could you do?

People start arriving. . .

More and more people keep coming. . .

Franc and Nick only know a few people, the rest are all strangers. . .

Things are getting out of control. . .

Think about this situation. . . What sort of things might be happening?

If it was your home, how would you feel?

People are drunk. . .

u u u How responsible is alcohol for this situation? How would the party goers behave without alcohol? Do you need alcohol to have a good time?

The Law regarding Alcohol (The Licensing Law) • It is illegal to give an alcoholic drink to a child under five except under medical supervision in an emergency. • Children under 16 can go anywhere in a pub as long as they are supervised by an adult, but cannot have any alcoholic drinks. • Some premises may prevent children under the age of 16 from entering, pubs which have experienced problems with underage drinking. • Young people aged 16 or 17 can drink beer, wine or cider with a meal if it is bought by an adult and they are accompanied by an adult. • It is illegal for this age group to drink spirits in pubs even with a meal. • It is against the law for anyone under 18 to buy alcohol in a pub, off-licence, supermarket, or other outlet, or for anyone to buy alcohol for someone under 18 to consume in a pub or a public place. • Some towns and cities have local by-laws banning drinking alcohol in public.

Crime Quiz u Work in pairs u Move around the room and complete your quiz sheet u Write down the ‘crime’ against the correct letter on your sheet u Discuss with your partner, then fill in the two sections – is it a crime and is there a victim?

Crime Quiz - Answers

Crime Quiz Is it a crime? Yes or No Is there a victim? If not why not? How serious 1 -9? 1 -lowest 9 -most serious A Shoplifting from supermarket Yes – companies as well as individuals can be 1. The company 2. The customer B Sniffing Glue No – however police have a duty of care and can arrest the user to take them somewhere safe Yes – 1. The user 2. The user’s family C Shouting Racist abuse Yes 1. The person who the abuse is being shouted at 2. It splits communities D Damaging a bus shelter Yes – although it is public property, it is owned by everybody 1. The council who make choices about how they spend the money 2. Your parents who have to pay more taxes E Fighting in the street Yes – it is a public order offence Although you might want to settle your differences by having a scrap , the community is effected F Throwing eggs at a window Yes – criminal damage, public order offences The person who now has egg on their stuff

G Bullying behaviour Yes – assault, harassment and public order offences. 1. The victim 2. The victim’s family 3. School and workplace H Dropping litter in public Yes – in most circumstances you will get fined, however sometimes you could be arrested Person who has litter on their property The community living in an untidy area who have to pay the bills to clean it up Drinking alcohol in the park Yes, victims are the people who use the park, often Children and families. People who drink often become aggressive, abusive. Litter, vandalism can result. Yes it is a crime. The seriousness depends on the amount of alcohol consumed and the behaviour of the drinkers. Alcohol is confiscated. Parents informed. Crime assessed and penalty given. I

Your personal possessions are being trashed!

You don’t know these people!

Someone phones the police? u Think about your character, could it be you? u

Is this a crime?

What about the next slides?

Impact! We have chosen a character for your group u As a group select a second character u The Impact sheet asks you to consider how the party has affected people u Complete the sheet in relation to these 2 characters u You will have to feed this back to everyone u

Crimes What crimes have been committed? Criminal damage u Public order offences u Serving alcohol to underage u Selling alcohol to adult to pass on to minor u Burglary u Theft u Arson u Misuse of drugs u Assault u Sexual offences (trespass) u

Have we achieved the aims of the session?

Aims of Let’s Party 1) To provide you with an opportunity to look at how choices and behaviour can impact on people 2) To extend your knowledge and understanding of crime and its consequences 3) Work in groups, pairs and individually, consider and value opinions, listen and put forward your own opinions and ideas

Evaluation