AC.3.1. Flashcards

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What types of crime do the cps deal with

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  • All serious offences
  • Deals with the majority of offences and offendors
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What is their local and national reach- cps

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  • A national body throughout the country
  • 14 regional teams
  • each have their own chief prosecutor
  • Work with other local police forces and criminal justice partners
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What are the cps aims and objectives

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  • Set up in 1986
  • Took the prosecuting role over the police due to bias
  • Advises police how to build a case
  • Independently monitors evidence from police
  • Decides whether to prosecute
  • Informs and supports victims and witnesses
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What is the philosphy of the cps

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  • Honesty
  • Independence
  • equality
  • professional
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What is the funding of the cps

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  • Most of the income is from the government
  • budget around half a billion a year
    -in 2018 recieved 25% budget cuts
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Aims and objectives of the police

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  • Protect life and property
  • Bring offenders to justice
  • the police achieve legal powers via PACE
  • Can do their duty that involves a crime
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What are the police- philosophy

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  • Robert Peel set up the MET in 1829
  • Basic mission is to prevent crime and disorder
  • Duties depends on public cooperation and approval
  • Physical force is the last resort
  • The police are public and public are the police
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What is the funding of the police

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  • 12.3 bill in 18/19.
    -2/3rds from the central government
    rest comes from council tax
  • funding has fallen off
    -there is a fall in police numbers
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What is the national/local reach of the police

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  • 39 regional police forces
  • many types of police
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What are the two working pratices of the police

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  • Police will deal with all types of offences
  • Specialist law enforcement on certain types of crime
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Types of specialist policing

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  • Air support
  • River police
  • Dog handler
  • Covert operations
  • Drug squad
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What are the aims and objectives of- judiciary

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Judge has to:
-Ensure a fair trial to all parties
- Explain the legal issue to the jury
- sum up evidence
- Pass sentence if the defendant is guilty

  • Can pass court appeals
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What is the judiciary philsophy

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  • Independent from government therefore law is upheld
  • No bias
  • Ensure a fair treatment
    -Have to swear oath
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How are judicary funded

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  • The senior salaries review body inform pm how much they should make
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Aims and objectives of the police

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  • protect from public harm \
  • to help people that convicted help contribute better to society
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Philsophy of the prisom

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  • ‘preventing victims by changing the lives of the offender
17
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Prison - Funding

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  • 2018 the total budget was 3bill
  • ## Resulted in staff cuts
18
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Prison pratices

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  • Category prisons
19
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Aims and objectives of the probation services

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  • NPS
  • Partnerships are built with courts police and private secotrs
  • 2 types of client ones in community service and ones released half way through their setence
20
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Philsophy- Probation service

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    • Belief that offenders can change for the better
  • believe in worth and dignity of an indivisual
  • comminiment to social justice
21
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Funding of the probation service

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  • in 2018 was 4.6 bil
22
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Aims and objectives of the charity

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-npo
- independent
- set up for those in need

23
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examples of one - NACRO

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  • both charity and pressure group
  • founded in 1966
  • a social justice charity
  • seeks to change lives
  • overcome the stereotypical view of an ex-prisoner.

offers services such as:
housing
education
resettlement advice
outreach projects

How does it act a pressure group:
Campaigns to chance laws affecting ex offenders
wants to ban the box on job applicatioj

24
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How is Nacro funded

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Income of 50mil a year through donation and contracts and grants

25
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What is narco reach

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  • A national organisation with around 50 different parts of England
  • Has a large member of full time staff and many unpaid workers
26
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working pratices: Types of criminality and offender

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  • Works with young people at risk of offending
  • Concerned for the needs of disadvantaged people
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