charities and pressure groups

Question 1

underlying philosophy

Answer 1

-help others and improve society
-pressure group tries to integrate change
-non profit organisation

Question 2

aims and objectives

Answer 2

-promote human rights of prisoners
-improve treatment of those in prison
-reduce unnecessary imprisonment
-promote community solutions to criminality

Question 3

working practices

Answer 3

-conducting research
-running campaigns
-lobbying government
-organising protests

Question 4

strengths

Answer 4

-charities are better at reducing offending as they have a strong commitment to one group with specialist knowledge
-strongly motivated and go the extra mile, for example NACRO campaigns to prevent Friday release for prisoners having no time to access vital resources which may lead to reoffending or sleeping rough

Question 4

funding

Answer 4

-cannot make any money due to non profit organisation
-donations

Question 5

weaknesses

Answer 5

-voluntary groups are not usually a large size of people
-a lot of charities focus on the victims of crimes and not the offenders, which can be helpful to prevent reoffending. this means the media would demonise particular offenders meaning it is hard to support them
-government will only fund charities if it is in line with their political ideologies