Charities

Question 1

Outline a 2 Charities

Answer 1

Key4Life
NACRO

Question 2

What does Key4Life do

Answer 2

Works with ex prisioners to rehabilitate them into society and break behavioural patterns that lead to criminal behaviour.
They also have the HMP Brixton Programme which allowed for ex offenders to get help finding regular work after their setence to allow them to get consistent income

Question 3

How do Charities and pressure groups interact with members of the criminal justice system

Answer 3

They hold the criminal justice system and its members to account and add pressure on these members to make changes

Question 4

Outline 2 Pressure groups

Answer 4

HOWARD LEAGUE FOR PENAL REFORM

Prision Reform Trust

Question 5

Outline HLFPR

Answer 5

works for less crime, safer communites and fewer people in prision

Aims to focus on the causes of crimes to prevent people going to prision in the first place

Question 6

why does HLFPR believe that prision systems dont work

Answer 6

The numbeer of people in prision has “more than doubled” over the last 3 decades

As well as recividism rates being 35% for over 12 months aand 58% for under 12 months

Question 7

What are 3 Campaigns the HLFPR ran and describe them

Answer 7

Child arrests - campaigned for a reduction of child arrests (as it was belived police arrested children to meet targets) leading toa reduction of child arests by 59% in 6 years

Books for Prisioners - set up in 2014 to overturn restrictions of offenders reading books - high court judge permitted it after their campaign

Womens Bail Hostels - raised a campaign surrounding the lack of approved premises for women, with there only being 6 for women in the country and 94 for men

Question 8

What is the role of NACRO

Answer 8

Foucsed on housing offenders and providing bail accomations - gave 2600 people secure accomation in 2018

Has outreach projects to help reduce youth offending/imprisonment

provided education to nearly 5000 peoplein 2019 through their services - helps with employment

Question 9

How are charities funded and how much (with examples)

Answer 9

Funded via public donations, government grants and contracts and rest is filled by volunteer work

NACRO - 50m a year
KEY4LIFE -140,000 per 12 month programme