Ten questions on the accurate version of the law and safer choices. Name: Score: _____ / 10
1. Serious youth violence is:
A) Another name for knife crime only
B) A broader term that can include group assault, robbery and serious injury
C) Only violence by adults
D) Only violence at school
2. Affray can involve:
A) Unlawful violence or threats that make a bystander fear for safety
B) An argument in a private group chat only
C) A detention only
D) No violence or threats
3. Sections 18 and 20 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 concern:
A) Driving offences
B) Wounding and grievous bodily harm
C) School attendance
D) Theft from shops
4. Joint enterprise means that:
A) Only the person who strikes can be investigated
B) A person who intentionally assists or encourages violence may be liable
C) Any friend is automatically guilty
D) Group violence is never investigated
5. The Supreme Court's 2016 ruling in
R v Jogee clarified that:
A) Foresight alone is not the legal test, intention to assist or encourage matters
B) Groups cannot be charged
C) Filming violence is always legal
D) Only adults can commit offences
6. Threatening or seriously harmful online messages may be offences under:
A) The Online Safety Act 2023
B) Only school rules
C) No law at all
D) Parking law
7. A young person pressured to attend violence may be:
A) Only a discipline issue
B) At risk of criminal exploitation and in need of safeguarding
C) Completely safe in a group
D) Unable to ask for help
8. Youth court outcomes can include:
A) Referral orders and youth rehabilitation orders
B) No consequences ever
C) Only adult prison sentences
D) A social-media ban only
9. A violence-related conviction can affect:
A) DBS checks, jobs, travel and insurance
B) Nothing after a week
C) Only people aged over 18
D) Only football matches
10. The best exit from an escalating group situation is:
A) Stay to see what happens
B) Film it for proof
C) Leave early, visibly and get support
D) Invite more people
Answer Key, Teacher Copy
1. B. Keep the scope broader than weapons. 2. A. Affray is about conduct that would make a person present fear for safety. 3. B. These offences cover wounding and grievous bodily harm, with section 18 generally involving intent and section 20 being a serious alternative offence. 4. B. Liability depends on intentional assistance or encouragement, not simply friendship. 5. A. Be precise. Jogee corrected the old approach so foresight is evidence from which intent may be inferred, not the test itself. 6. A. The Online Safety Act 2023 contains the current communications offences. Online threats can be criminal and may also be evidence of escalation. 7. B. Contextual safeguarding requires adults to recognise pressure, grooming and exploitation. 8. A. In the most serious cases a detention and training order is also possible. 9. A. Make consequences concrete, without pretending every application has the same result. 10. C. Early departure reduces both physical risk and the risk of becoming part of a group event.