Using Street Law, you can:

• Invite your students to consider issues related to ownership of ideas with intellectual property coverage.
• Illustrate issues in the context of real-life and hypothetical situations with Case Studies. You Be the Judge involves students in considering and deciding the outcome of a legal situation.
• Offer an opportunity to study human rights issues in the United States with Human Rights U.S.A.
• Highlight variations in local law and procedures with Where You Live.
• Help students learn how to advocate for change in the community and how to solve problems without going to court with Youth Act.

Contents:

UNIT ONE INTRODUCTION TO LAW & THE LEGAL SYSTEM

• Chapter 1 What is Law?
• Chapter 2 Lawmaking
• Chapter 3 Citizen Advocacy
• Chapter 4 Settling Disputes
• Chapter 5 The Court System
• Chapter 6 Lawyers

UNIT TWO CRIMINAL LAW & JUVENILE JUSTICE

• Chapter 7 Crime in America
• Chapter 8 Introduction to Criminal Law
• Chapter 9 Crimes Against the Person
• Chapter 10 Crimes Against Property
• Chapter 11 Defenses
• Chapter 12 The Criminal Justice Process: The Investigation Phase
• Chapter 13 The Criminal Justice Process: Proceedings Before Trail
• Chapter 14 Criminal Justice Process: The Trial
• Chapter 15 Criminal Justice Process: Sentencing & Corrections
• Chapter 16 Juvenile Justice

UNIT THREE TORTS

• Chapter 17 Torts: A Civil Wrong
• Chapter 18 Intentional Torts
• Chapter 19 Negligence
• Chapter 20 Strict Liability
• Chapter 21 Torts & Public Policy

UNIT FOUR CONSUMER & HOUSING LAW

• Chapter 22 Contracts
• Chapter 23 Warranties
• Chapter 24 Credit
• Chapter 25 Deceptive Sales Practices
• Chapter 26 Becoming a Smart Consumer
• Chapter 27 Cars & the Consumer
• Chapter 28 Housing & the Consumer

UNIT FIVE FAMILY LAW

• Chapter 29 Law & the American Family
• Chapter 30 Marriage
• Chapter 31 Legal Rights of Single People Who Live Together
• Chapter 32 Parents & Children
• Chapter 33 Foster Care & Adoption
• Chapter 34 Separation, Divorce, & Custody
• Chapter 35 Government Support for Families & Individuals

UNIT SIX INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Chapter 36 Introduction to Constitutional Law
• Chapter 37 Freedom of Speech
• Chapter 38 Freedom of the Press
• Chapter 39 Expression in Special Places
• Chapter 40 Freedom of Religion
• Chapter 41 Due Process
• Chapter 42 The Right to Privacy
• Chapter 43 Discrimination
• Chapter 44 Rights & Responsibilities in the Workplace