QR Challenge: Criminal Justice Practice

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

Teacher Notes

A. Prior to the lesson:

1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.

2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to

• Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
• Bring these devices into the lesson.

3. Print out the QR codes.

4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.

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B. The lesson:

1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.

2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.

3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!

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C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS

4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.

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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. the system of agencies and practices established by governments to uphold social order, deter and mitigate crime and impose penalties on those who violate laws	criminal justice
2. consists of systems which enforce the law by deterring law violations, discovering law violations, and apprehending and detaining individuals who violate laws	law enforcement
3. a person who is not the chief offender but is involved in some way (accomplice or abettor)	accessory
4. voluntary acknowledgement of certain facts	admission
5. behavior accompanying a crime which increases its intensity or adds to its consequences beyond what is necessary for the commission of the crime itself	aggravation
6. deliberately and illegally setting fire to a property	arson
7. attempting or threatening to inflict bodily injury	assault
8. a study of crime and how crime affects the community or society as a whole	criminology
9. the science of evidence collection and analysis	criminalistics
10. unlawful killing of a person by another person (includes murder and manslaughter)	homicide
11. restriction setting the period of time allowed to elapse between the occurrence of an incident and the filling of a lawsuit or criminal prosecution	statute of limitations
12. written order issued by a judge directing an officer to perform an arrest, search or seizure	warrant
13. drug or substance regulated by federal or state law	controlled substance
14. unlawful killing of a person without malice	manslaughter
15. unlawful killing of a person with malice	murder
16. facts and circumstances providing reasonable justification for a seizure, search or warrant	probable cause
17. facts and circumstances providing justification for a brief stop or detention (still requires more than a hunch or mere speculation)	reasonable suspicion
18. blood alcohol concentration	BAC
19. combined DNA index system	CODIS
20. dead on arrival	DOA
21. gunshot residue	GSR

 

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