Description

An Educational Criminal Law Game

Jailbait is an exciting simulation of the real world of crime. It is both entertaining and designed to teach the lay person about the criminal justice system. The player will be taken through the court process, starting with bail hearings and lawyer's fees through to the trial and sentencing. Players will enjoy playing the roles of police officers, lawyers and Judges (sic). The winner of the game is the player with the most amount of money, but, he must also have the least number of criminal convictions.

Jailbait equipment consists of a board with crime squares, tokens for the various players, one die, Judge's dice, Jailbait money, small chips which are the players' conviction chips and 3 sets of cards—crime cards (which correspond to the various crime squares on the board), lawyer's fee/bail cards and pre-trial cards.

The winner of the game is the person with the most amount of money after he purchases back all his conviction chips. The game may conclude at any time, simply purchase back the conviction chips and count your money. Alternatively, the game concludes when only two players are left playing.

This game was designed to follow the actual process of the Canadian Criminal Justice system as closely as possible within the framework of a game. There are many aspects and possibilities that arise within the court system which were impossible to include: however, the pertinent section of the Criminal Code of Canada has been noted in the glossary when appropriate to enable the player to obtain further information if he or she so desires by referring to that document. The United States glossary version will follow.

—description from the publisher