Designed to equip young people with the knowledge and skills they need to be street wise - to understand their rights and responsibilities - this resource challenges young people to engage in relevant moral questions through raising awareness of the criminal process and how it applies to them, so that that they can take a lead in developing better relationships within their communities.

Sam Frankel has devised a fully-photocopiable modular, flexible programme for use with individuals or in group work, covering topics such as police powers, stereotypes and peer pressure. Written for facilitators, this creative and interactive resource comprises exercises, facilitator's notes and handouts to help challenge young people to think about how they want to be seen, what behaviour they feel is right and wrong and the role and purpose of the criminal law.

This easy-to-use resource is suitable for secondary and tertiary school teachers, youth leaders and social workers working with young people aged 15 and above. It will also be of interest to those involved in family work with local Primary Care Trusts.

This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 176 pages in this book. This book was published 2009 by Jessica Kingsley Publishers .

Aidan Chambers is an award-winning children's author and an experienced compiler. He worked for some years as a teacher before deciding to write full time. In 1969 he and his wife Nancy founded The Thimble Press, which publishes Signal, a critical journal devoted to children's literature. His book Postcard from No Man's Land won the Carnegie Medal in 1999. He lives in Gloucestershire. Tim Stevens studied illustration at Camberwell College of Art. He illustrated The Girls in the Velvet Frame (Adele Geras) and Down with the Dirty Danes (Gillian Cross) for HarperCollins. He lives in Suffolk. Sam Frankel PhD is Director of educational charity Act4, a provider of social responsibility programmes. Sam has extensive experience of criminal justice work, from volunteering with victim support to working both as a police officer and in criminal defence. He has developed sessions on criminal justice issues for primary school children, young people, police officers, university undergraduates and parents.

This book has the following chapters: Street Wise - a Course. Session 1. Young People and Society. Session 2. Right and Wrong. Session 3. It's a Crime. Session 4. Street Law. Session 5. Citizenship in Practice. References. Index.