NCJ Number
75067
Date Published
1979
Length
332 pages
Annotation
This handbook was developed to provide practical assistance to resource persons who make presentations about law and the criminal justice system in schools and organizational settings.
Abstract
The handbook has four sections. The first section provides an overview, explains the use of the handbook, presents information on using the community as a teaching resource, and provides a checklist for a classroom visit. Strategies designed to involve students actively are described in the next section. These strategies include case studies, mock trials, moot courts, brainstorming, surveys, police activities, and field trips. For each strategy, procedural guidelines, instructions for implementation, and several examples are outlined. Activities for programs focusing on an introduction to law, individual rights, criminal law, and civil law are then highlighted. The information on individual law and civil law is arranged the subcategories of freedom of speech, research and seizure, family law, and environmental law. Reproducible student handouts for strategies and activities are included. The handbook concludes with suggested additional resources such as printed materials for students, teachers, and resource persons; media kits; and filmstrips, games, and simulations. An index is provided. (ERIC abstract modified).