C+P Modern Britain complete

Question 1

What time period was Modern Britian?

Answer 1

c1900

Question 2

Name some new crimes in the 1900s.

Answer 2

• Drink-driving

- Advanced terrorism using modern weapons, transport and communications = more ordinary people at risk.

Question 3

Name two important changes in society.

Answer 3

• Multicultural, containing people of different races and religions.
• More equal rights between men and women.

Question 4

Name a crime that increased in severity after 2005 because a law was passed making hate crimes more severe, and a law that was passed in 2006.

Answer 4

Racial and religious hatred act crime meant spreading racial or religious hatred a crime. Allowing criminal courts to give harsher sentences.

Question 5

Name 3 driving offences.

Answer 5

• Driving under the influence on drugs
• Without insurance or MOT
• Speeding
• Ignoring traffic lights
• Using mobile phone

Question 6

Name two changes in policing.

Answer 6

• Motorised transport means police can reach crimes faster, but less are now on the street.
• Some police officers are now armed.
• Modern police force includes women and people from different ethnic groups.

Question 7

Police Community Support Officers were introduced in 2002 to do what?

Answer 7

Prevent crime in their communities.
Educate others about how to stay safe.
Challenge extremism and radicalisation.

Question 8

Name some equipment that is used from the 1900s onward.

Answer 8

• Radios
• CCTV
• Computers
• Cars, motorbikes and helicopters
• Finger prints

Question 9

Capital punishment was last used when?

Why is it totally abolished now?

Answer 9

1964

• Ideas about punishment continued to change.
• Controversial cases in the 1950s including Derek Bentley and Ruth Ellis led to people question the use of capital punishment.

Question 10

Non-custodial sentences have been developed as an alternative to prisons. Name 2

Answer 10

• Community work

- Electronic tagging

Question 11

How has rehabilitation changed since the 1800s?

Answer 11

1800s punished criminals to discourage them whereas now they are educated and given work teaching them new skills.

Question 12

Conscription is a law that states what?

Answer 12

Everyone who is asked to, and who is fit and healthy, has to fight in the armed forces. Therefore it is a crime if you refuse.

Question 13

Conscientious objectors do not conscript, who are they?

Answer 13

They are people who have religious, moral or political objections to war.

Question 14

What do the public think of conscientious objectors?

Include white feathers

Answer 14

Thought of as cowards and traitors. Some shouted at or even physically abused. If you refused to fight you were given a white feather so everyone could see your cowardly act; made it hard to find jobs.

Question 15

Who was the 19 year old Derek Bentley? What did he do?

Answer 15

• Had a learning disability and mental age of 10.
• He and his friend Craig decided to burgle a warehouse but failed.
• Bentley detained but Craig had a knife and a gun and shot Fairfax in shoulder.
• Bentley apparently said ‘let’s have it’ before another policeman was shot and killed this time.
• Craig tried to escape and broke his back and Bentley was the only was unscathed.

-Craig imprisoned long term but Bentley hanged in 1953.

Question 16

What was the public and parliamentary opinion of the Derek Bentley case?

Answer 16

Case received a lot of media coverage and a Bentley repreive was supported by MPs but Home Secretary refused.
Bentley was pardoned in 1993 and conviction for murder overturned in 1998.

Question 17

What was the significance of the Bentley case?

Answer 17

• Highlighted vast differences in punishment for murder, as some were hanged while others were reprieved.
• Showed how Home Secretary reprieving from murders was inconsistent.
• Increased number of people critical of capital punishment.