1. Starter:What makes a criminal?
For a criminal
Create your own recipe for a criminal. What makes someone one? You must your baking terms such as “a pinch of, stir in some, a dash of, sprinkle some…”

2. Crime & Punishment
Causes of Crime

3. Lesson Objectives: To recap categories of crime and examples of.
To acquire a knowledge of some of the causes of crime.
To consider whether these ought to be considered mitigating circumstances when a person is facing sentencing.

4. Environmental Social psychological Inside write:
Human/ Psychological causes
e.g. jealousy, anger, mental illness
Social and Environmental
On the outside- E.G.
Poverty, class
Human reasons-
psychological
- drug and alcohol abuse
violence in the home
mental disturbance
emotional stress
lack of education
Poverty
Add your own examples…..

5. Exam question
Give three reasons why some people break the law. Explain each (3 marks)

6. Peer assessment
Candidates may include some of the following points: Social reasons, e.g. join in with gang or peer pressure / environmental reasons, e.g. poverty, deprived home background, parents criminals / psychological reasons / greed /selfishness / drug addiction / ignorance / disagree with the law / lack of education /boredom, etc Allow one mark for each of three reasons.

7. Homework
Using the newspapers, find crime related stories- work out the causes of the crime -Environmental -Social -Psychological