Campaigns + Policy Flashcards
What are the 3 campaigns?
Pressure groups
Individual campaigns
Newspaper campaigns
What is a pressure group?
Organisations that aim to influence government policies by gaining support and pursuading politicians
What is an individual campaign?
Most campaigns start this was and are an individual who feels so strongly about a policy they take getting change into their own hands
What is a newspaper campaigns?
Where newspapers can help to shape law by mobilising public opinion
Examples of pressure groups
Snowdrop
Protection against stalking
How is snowdrop a pressure group?
Larger number of campaigners
Used influence+support yo pressure governments
Driving force if snowdrop campaign
16 children and a teacher were killed in a school shooting in Dundee and aimed for a ban of private ownership of handguns
Snowdrop campaign methods
A petition with over 700,000 signatures
Letter printed in newspapers
Short film voiced by Sean connery
What policy was introduced by snowdrop
Firearms (amendment) act 1997
Banned private ownership of handguns over a .22 calibre
How is protection against stalking a pressure group ?
Large organisation and national charity
Pressured government into change
Driving force of Protection against stalking
Poor quality of laws and inadequate training of professionals
Stalking had not been recognised as criminal
Campaign methods for Protection against stalking
Independent parliamentary inquiry
Lobbying to gain support from MPs
Social media and educational events
Policy introduced by Protection against stalking
Protection of freedoms act 2012
Made stalking a criminal offence outlined stalking
What are the individual campaigns?
Clare’s law
Ann Ming’s double Jeopardy campaign
How was Clare’s law and individual campaign?
Clare’s father was the spearhead of the campaign
He had campaigned and persisted for Change
Driving force of Clare’s law
After Clare’s murder in 2009
She was strangled and set on fire but her boyfriend
Argued if she had have known she wouldn’t have been with him
Wanted people to have the right to know a partners history
Campaign methods for Clare’s law
Came up with the idea of police disclosure scheme and took to government
4 years of organising
Appeared on TV and radio
What was the policy introduced by Clare’s law?
Domestic violence disclosure scheme 2014
Gives right to ask and know
How was Ann Ming’s double Jeopardy campaign an individual campaign?
Was spearheaded by Ann Ming
She campaigned to get the laws changed
Driving force of Ann Ming’s double Jeopardy campaign
Julie Hogg was killed in 1989
After her murderer was found not guilty he confessed but couldn’t be charged
Wanted the double Jeopardy rule to change
Campaign methods of Ann Ming’s double Jeopardy campaign
Newspapers and many politicians backed it
The northern echo backed her campaign
What was the policy introduced by Ann Ming’s double Jeopardy campaign?
Criminal justice act 2003
Abolished double Jeopardy for 30 serious crimes
What are the 2 newspaper campaigns?
Sarah’s law
Dangerous dogs act 1991
How was Sarah’s law a newspaper campaign?
News of the world has backed the campaign and ran several front pages and pushed the petition
Driving force of Sarah’s law
8-year-old Sarah had been abducted and murdered by a known sex offender
Due to lack of evidence he was not arrested till 2001
Believed parents had the right to know if there was a sex offender in their area
Campaign methods of Sarah’s law
News of the world out pressure on government
Released 100 men on sex offenders registry and threatened to release 1000 more
Petition that got 700,000 signatures
What was the policy introduced by Sarah’s law?
Child sex offender disclosure scheme
Allowed controlled access to the sex offender registry and could enquire about individuals
How was the Dangerous dogs a newspaper campaign?
Several newspapers covered the story with pictures of a 6 year old girl in a hospital bed after a bog attack
Driving force of the dangerous dogs
Series of dog attacks
6 year old was mauled by a pit bull terrier and taken to hospital
Campaign methods of dangerous dogs
Newspapers covered the story
Graphic pictures of dog attacks were published of children causing moral panic putting pressure on MPs
What was the policy introduced by Dangerous dogs?
Dangerous dogs act 1991
Banned 4 now 5 dogs
Made it an offence for the owner to allow the dog to act dangerously and out of control
