4.3 campaigns affect policy making

Question 1

What are aims of campaign?

Answer 1

Can change law to make a certain act a criminal offence

Question 2

Led by who?

Answer 2

Newspapers, or pressure groups

Question 3

What are pressure groups?

Answer 3

organisation that tries to influence government policies

Question 4

Why are pressure groups significant?

Answer 4

Play important rule in policy making by gaining support from public

Question 5

Inquest

Answer 5

focuses on state-relates deaths, people in custody, prisons and immigration detention center

Question 6

Examples of involvement

Answer 6

Grenfell tower, Hillsborough and shooting of Mark Duggan

Question 7

Sarah’s Law

Answer 7

• allowed parents to ask police if a convicted sex offender has had contact with a specific child; followed by murder of Sarah Payne

• success of Sarah’s law campaign established the Child Sex Offender Disclosure Scheme, campaign was backed by the News of the World(newspaper)

Question 8

Ann Mings campaign

Answer 8

seeked to abolish the double jeopardy law; Ann Ming , mother of Julie Hogg campaigned for a change in the law; 2005 law changed so people could be prosecuted again regardless if they were charged prior
- resulted in a clause in the CJA Act 2003 and the retrial of Billy Dunlop

Question 9

Double jeopardy

Answer 9

a person found guilty by court of an offence could not be prosecuted again

Question 10

Snowdrop campaign

Answer 10

• established following the Dunblane massacre in 1996, banned the private ownership and use of handguns
• the Firearms (Amendment) (No.2) Act 1997 was introduced which banned private ownership of cartridge ammunition handguns