🚫| 6. Government Responses to Crime

Question 1

Government Responses to Crime

Answer 1

• Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) for Alcohol
• The Caledonian System
• ‘Hate Has No Home in Scotland’ campaign

Question 2

Government Responses to Crime

Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) for Alcohol

Answer 2

• One response to crime by the Scottish Government is minimum unit pricing for alcohol.
• The Scottish Government are aware of the link between alcohol and violent crime, so created MUP for alcohol to tackle this. The policy sets a minimum price of 50p for alcohol to reduce large consumptions of alcohol.
• For example, a study released by Newcastle University in 2021 found that alcohol sales fell by 8% after MUP was introduced.

Question 3

Government Responses to Crime

The Caledonian System

Answer 3

• One response to crime by the Scottish Government is the Caledonian System.
• The Caledonian System aims to tackle violence against women and girls by giving one-to-one assessment and support for a minimum of 2 years to men with a history of domestic abuse.
• For example, an evalutation of the system by the Scottish Government in 2016 found that the number of men from start to finish who posed a risk to their partners went from 26% of participants to just 8%.

Question 4

Government Responses to Crime

‘Hate Has No Home in Scotland’ campaign

Answer 4

• One response to crime by the Scottish Government is the ‘Hate Has No Home in Scotland’ campaign.
• The Scottish Government partnered up with Police Scotland to create this campaign in 2017, which involved billboards and online advertisements being used to spread anti-hate crime messages over a six week period.
• For example, The Scottish Government reported in an evalutation of the campaign that 58% of those who had experienced hate crime saw the campaign.

Question 5

Effective Response:

Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) for Alcohol

Answer 5

• One effective response to crime by the Scottish Government is minimum unit pricing for alcohol.
• The Scottish Government are aware of the link between alcohol and violent crime, so created MUP for alcohol to tackle this. The policy sets a minimum price of 50p for alcohol to reduce large consumptions of alcohol.
• For example, a study released by Newcastle University in 2021 found that alcohol sales fell by 8% after MUP was introduced.

Question 6

Effective Response:

The Caledonian System

Answer 6

• One effective response to crime by the Scottish Government is the Caledonian System.
• The Caledonian System aims to tackle violence against women and girls by giving one-to-one assessment and support for a minimum of 2 years to men with a history of domestic abuse.
• For example, an evalutation of the system by the Scottish Government in 2016 found that the number of men from start to finish who posed a risk to their partners went from 26% of participants to just 8%.

Question 7

Effective Response:

‘Hate Has No Home in Scotland’ campaign

Answer 7

• One effective response to crime by the Scottish Government is the ‘Hate Has No Home in Scotland’ campaign.
• The Scottish Government partnered up with Police Scotland to create this campaign in 2017, which involved billboards and online advertisements being used to spread anti-hate crime messages over a six week period.
• For example, The Scottish Government reported in an evalutation of the campaign that 58% of those who had experienced hate crime saw the campaign.

Question 8

Ineffective Response:

Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) for Alcohol

Answer 8

• One ineffective response to crime by the Scottish Government is minimum unit pricing for alcohol.
• The Scottish Government are aware of the link between alcohol and violent crime, so created MUP for alcohol to tackle this. The policy sets a minimum price of 50p for alcohol, but this has not managed to reduce alcohol-related crime.
• For example, a study carried out by Manchester Metropolitan Police from 2015 to 2020 looked at the impact of the policy on alcohol related crime - no significant change was found.

Question 9

Ineffective Response:

The Caledonian System

Answer 9

• One ineffective response to crime by the Scottish Government is the Caledonian System.
• The Caledonian System aims to tackle violence against women and girls by giving one-to-one assessment and support for a minimum of 2 years to men with a history of domestic abuse, but there is evidence to suggest that the system has failed to tackle this effectively.
• For example, 33,425 domestic abuse charges were recorded in Scotland in 2020-21 - this is a 9% increase from 2019-20.

Question 10

Ineffective Response:

‘Hate Has No Home in Scotland’ campaign

Answer 10

• One ineffective response to crime by the Scottish Government is the ‘Hate Has No Home in Scotland’ campaign.
• The Scottish Government partnered up with Police Scotland to create this campaign in 2017, which involved billboards and online advertisements being used to spread anti-hate crime messages over a six week period. However, the campaign failed to make a lasting impact on hate crime rates.
• For example, in June 2020 figures showed a 4% rise in racially motivated hate crime, a 24% rise in religiously motivated hate crime and a 29% rise in disability-related hate crime.