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Crime And Law Examples! (Memo) Flashcards

1
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Drug crime
Example?

A

Someone can go to jail for up to 7 years for drug possession and life in prison if they sell it

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Knife crime?
Example?

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Even if you didn’t plan to use it you can go to jail for 5 years for possession of knife

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Drug crime on the rise?
Example?

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1,330 people lost their life to messuage of drugs in 2021

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Knife crime on the rise?
Example?

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From 2021 to 2022 a 10% has happened from previous knife crime reports

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Religious hate crimes decreasing?
Example?

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900 offences in 2021 and now in 2022 goes down to 428

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Knife crime going down?
Example?

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Scotland has the lowest rate of knife crime in all of the UK

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Born evil
Example?

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People think that people that are born evil have no choice and that its in their nature to commit crimes

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Genetic abnormalities
Example?

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Recent studies in Finland shows that people with the warrior gene are 13 times more likely to have a repeated record of violent behaviour.

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Fear in community
Example?

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Fear in community can actually encourage criminals to commit more crimes

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Unemployment
Example?

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Local shops will suffer in a area of high crime rate, and will limit opportunities for employment

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Cost to consumer
Example?

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Shop lifting and fraud cost business billions of pounds (5 billon)

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Less money for other public services
Example?

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Crimes cost Scotland 2.24 billon pounds a year

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Don’t act as a discouragement
Example?

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Non sexual crimes have gone up by 16% in recent years.

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Guilty get away
Example?

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1 out of 5 rape trials result in the person not being guilty. This shows that this is not working

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Remove child from home
Example?

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If child is victem of abuse in home can be removed immediately

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Secure attendance
Example?

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Police can get a warrant and search for the child, search places. And even break down doors, and then taking child to custody

17
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Violence reduction
Example?

A

VRU recruiting offenders to help them learn and educate them

18
Q

No knifes better lives
Example

A

Working with people in power to make videos educating
Reduces likeliness of more knife crimes

19
Q

Tackling causes of knife crimes

A

Murder rates in Glasgow have dropped around 60% in 10 years

20
Q

Reduce number of knife crime
Example?

A

2018-2019 London police as well as other cities look to Scotland to see how they fought crime

21
Q

Violent crime still a problem (increasing)
Example?

A

Non sexual crimes gone up by 5% in 2022 compared to 2021

22
Q

Alcohol related problems (influenced by it)
Example?

A

2 out of 3 serious assault cases were influenced by alcohol the government recently found out

23
Q

Maintain law and crime
Example?

A

Police are there at all professional sport match for safety of fans

24
Q

Detect crime
Example?

A

In 2023 police scolatland arrested 13 people at the TRNSMT festival because they were suspicious

25
Q

Power of arrest
Example?

A

November 5th 2022
12 people were arrested for suspicion of fireworks offences

26
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Stop and search tactics
Example?

A

Scotland police used this at euro 2020 to ensure fans were safe

27
Q

Early intervention
Example?

A

Police go to high schools educating young people about dangers of causing crimes and prevention methods

28
Q

Failed in tackling violent crimes
Example
(Reaons)

A

Went up by 5% compared to previous years in 2021

29
Q

Failed to prevent sex crimes
Example?

A

Scotland police was made in 2013 the cases have Gone up around 90,000 per year to 12,000

30
Q

Protect the public
Example?

A

8000 people in Scotland are in prison

31
Q

Rehabilitate offenders
Example?

A

In 2019 3.4 Million was used to educate prisoners

32
Q

Overcrowding
Example?

A

January 2019 Barlin was found to be going over their capacity limit by 37%

33
Q

High reoffending rates for drug users
Example?

A

Rate is 58% for those following the drug treatment + testing order

34
Q

Fines
Example?

A

If someone is caught they pay £80

35
Q

Electric tagging
Example

A

Used on gang members to cheak their night activity

36
Q

More cost efficient
Example?

A

Standard prison sentence = 80,000
Alternatives = 19,000
Per offender

37
Q

Less likely to reoffend
Example?

A

People who serve have 14% less chance of redoing the crime according to Howard legue for personal reform

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