How much do you know about the law?

Click here for a guide to crime and the law.

Terrorism

Go to the Newsround special report on the London bombing, which can be found here.

Is terrorism an inevitable part of global politics?

How powerful are adverts?

SMOKING Graphic images are to be placed on cigarette packets by the end of 2009 in an effort to increase awareness about the effects of smoking. Read more here. Some of the images that will be used are here (warning - some of these are quite graphic).

About 106,000 people in the UK die each year due to smoking, many of these suffer for many years with diseases such as COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). About half of all smokers die from smoking-related diseases.

Do you think these images will work? Will they reduce the number of people smoking?

GAMBLING
There are new laws from August 2007 which allow gambling to be advertised. Read about it here. Some people say this will only lead to more people addicted to gambling.

How powerful do you think advertising is?

At what age should we have criminal responsibility?

A new report (here) says that thousands of crimes in the UK are committed by those under the age of 10. In the UK the current age for criminal responsibility is 10. This means those under 10 cannot be prosecuted for a crime. In the USA the age of criminal responsibility is 6 (in some states) but other countries have a much higher age limit (in Spain and Portugal it is 16 and in Brazil and Peru its 18!).

Do you think the age for criminal responsibility is right at 10 years old in England? Should it be higher? Should it be lower?

Government and Parliament

Click here and select 'government and parliament' for a quiz and background information.

Crime - how would you respond?

Click here and select 'Crime' to see how you'd respond to witnessing a crime.

Iraq

How much do you know about the reasons for conflict in Iraq? Click here for a variety of activities, guides and quizes.

Identity and Diversity in Northern Ireland

Click here
to access the resources based on Northern Ireland. Here there are activities about ethnic minorities in Northern Ireland.

Should this be on the internet?

A recent BBC Panorama programme highlighted the issue of 'happy slapping' (or worse!) videos being published on the web on sites like You Tube. Click here for the full story.

Once you have read the story - what do you think? Should sites like You Tube be more carefully monitored? Should violent or aggressive videos be banned totally? Or should they only be banned in certain circumstances? If so, what circumstances?

The Slave Trade

25 March 2007 was the 200th anniversary of the 1807 Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. This Act outlawed the slave trade throughout the British Empire and made it illegal for British ships to be involved in the trade, marking the beginning of the end for the transatlantic traffic in human beings.

Read the article from the BBC at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6493507.stm
and view the video from YouTube below which shows two Archbishops' reflections on the slave pits in Zanzibar (you will need sound).



Do you think the UK should issue a public apology for their role in the slave trade?
Where else in the world is slavery still an issue today? (Hopefully you learnt something about this in your Citizenship lessons on 23rd March)