AC3.4 Evaluate the effectiveness of agencies in achieving social control(charties and Pressure Groups )

Question 1

What do charities do to support social control?

Answer 1

• Provide services to specific groups (e.g. ex-prisoners)
• Help with housing, addiction, mental health, and more

Question 2

What do pressure groups do to support social control?

Answer 2

• Campaign for change in government policy
• Push for reforms in the criminal justice system

Question 3

Why are charities seen as effective?

Answer 3

• Strong commitment to specific causes
• Can reduce reoffending more than government agencies
• Offer support where state services fall short

Question 4

How does NACRO contribute to social control?

Answer 4

• Campaigns to stop Friday prison releases
• Helps ex-prisoners find emergency and long-term housing
• Tackles homelessness—a major cause of reoffending

Question 5

How does Women in Prison (WIP) help achieve social control?

Answer 5

• Tackles root causes: over 50% of female offenders are victims of abuse
• Helps with housing, mental health, addiction, and poverty
• Offers CARE programme (Choices, Actions, Relationships, Emotions)
• Provides helpline and referrals to specialist support

Question 6

How is WIP also a pressure group?

Answer 6

• Campaigns for women-focused justice reforms
• Wants fewer women’s prisons, more community-based solutions
• Pushes for proper use of sentencing guidelines

Question 7

What are the main limitations of charities and pressure groups in social control?

Answer 7

• Voluntary: only exist if people care about an issue
• May focus on victims, not offenders, limiting impact on rehabilitation
• Media may demonise offenders, making it harder to get support
• Public more willing to fund victims’ charities than those for offenders