The teacher material includes an introduction explaining the Washington State Crime Watch program, a suggested teaching schedule, pre/post tests, and a teaching summary of each chapter with teaching objectives, answers to learning activities, and checkups. The student material is a case study of a typical shoplifting incident in chapters that include a prologue, the incident, the arrest, the aftermath, and an epilogue. Each chapter consists of the following parts: (1) the story line, (2) background notes (research, legal data, and definition of terms pertaining to the story line), (3) learning activity, and (4) checkup. The learning activity consists of student involvement in activities to reinforce the learning objectives of the chapter. All activities require students to deal honestly with their own feelings about what has happened in the story line. Several activities involve interviews and discussions with adults outside the classroom. The material is especially relevant to social studies classes.