Power, Politics and the Media

Power, Politics and the Media

The Law

My Expectations

• QUESTION EVERYTHING – you’re all Critical Thinkers now in Year 10….

• Listen while the teacher is talking• Listen while other students are talking• Put up your hand if you would like to speak• Be reliable• Respect others at all times• Use appropriate language

If you have enough power…..can you create your own laws?

Re-cap…

• What have we been learning in this topic?• Power – What is power?• The relationship between politics and the

media• Pressure groups and the media

• Today…moving on…’The Law’

What is ‘The Law’?

• In Pairs – mind map what you believe ‘The Law’ to be.

Made by Government Crime Prevention

Rules

The Law

The LawThe system of rules that a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and may enforce by the imposition of penalties

A subject of study or as the basis of the legal profession

The police

The body of divine commandments as expressed in the Bible or other religious texts

Law and Justice? ‘Two sides of the same coin…’

What is Justice?

What does ‘justice’ mean to you?Personal? Crime and Punishment? Righting

wrongs? Karma?

Can Justice exist without the Law?Can Law exist without Justice?

Should we decide our own punishments? If we break ‘The Law’ – who decides what the punishment is? What is fair?

An eye for an eye? A sentence to fit the crime?Cake or Death?

The Law in the UK

• How are laws made in the UK?

Media and the Law‘Sarah’s Law’• The News of the World newspaper created a campaign to create a law which allows people to know the whereabouts of released sex offenders.

Pressure Groups and the Law• Sometimes pressure groups can change the

law…to their disadvantage

• Huntingdon Life Science and Animal Rights campaigners

• What do you think?

Me…and the Law

• Individual Student Task - Create a ‘mega mind map’ of where you stand in relation to you and the law – ‘Me and the Law’

• How do you visualise the law, justice and power?

• Where are you in relation to the ‘Law’?

Me and the Law

Try to answer these questions….

How do I feel about the Law?Do I have the Power to change the Law?Why is the Law always changing? Why has the Law changed so much throughout human history?What do I feel about Justice?