Crime And Law Examples! (Memo) Flashcards
Drug crime
Example?
Someone can go to jail for up to 7 years for drug possession and life in prison if they sell it
Knife crime?
Example?
Even if you didn’t plan to use it you can go to jail for 5 years for possession of knife
Drug crime on the rise?
Example?
1,330 people lost their life to messuage of drugs in 2021
Knife crime on the rise?
Example?
From 2021 to 2022 a 10% has happened from previous knife crime reports
Religious hate crimes decreasing?
Example?
900 offences in 2021 and now in 2022 goes down to 428
Knife crime going down?
Example?
Scotland has the lowest rate of knife crime in all of the UK
Born evil
Example?
People think that people that are born evil have no choice and that its in their nature to commit crimes
Genetic abnormalities
Example?
Recent studies in Finland shows that people with the warrior gene are 13 times more likely to have a repeated record of violent behaviour.
Fear in community
Example?
Fear in community can actually encourage criminals to commit more crimes
Unemployment
Example?
Local shops will suffer in a area of high crime rate, and will limit opportunities for employment
Cost to consumer
Example?
Shop lifting and fraud cost business billions of pounds (5 billon)
Less money for other public services
Example?
Crimes cost Scotland 2.24 billon pounds a year
Don’t act as a discouragement
Example?
Non sexual crimes have gone up by 16% in recent years.
Guilty get away
Example?
1 out of 5 rape trials result in the person not being guilty. This shows that this is not working
Remove child from home
Example?
If child is victem of abuse in home can be removed immediately
Secure attendance
Example?
Police can get a warrant and search for the child, search places. And even break down doors, and then taking child to custody
Violence reduction
Example?
VRU recruiting offenders to help them learn and educate them
No knifes better lives
Example
Working with people in power to make videos educating
Reduces likeliness of more knife crimes
Tackling causes of knife crimes
Murder rates in Glasgow have dropped around 60% in 10 years
Reduce number of knife crime
Example?
2018-2019 London police as well as other cities look to Scotland to see how they fought crime
Violent crime still a problem (increasing)
Example?
Non sexual crimes gone up by 5% in 2022 compared to 2021
Alcohol related problems (influenced by it)
Example?
2 out of 3 serious assault cases were influenced by alcohol the government recently found out
Maintain law and crime
Example?
Police are there at all professional sport match for safety of fans
Detect crime
Example?
In 2023 police scolatland arrested 13 people at the TRNSMT festival because they were suspicious
Power of arrest
Example?
November 5th 2022
12 people were arrested for suspicion of fireworks offences
Stop and search tactics
Example?
Scotland police used this at euro 2020 to ensure fans were safe
Early intervention
Example?
Police go to high schools educating young people about dangers of causing crimes and prevention methods
Failed in tackling violent crimes
Example
(Reaons)
Went up by 5% compared to previous years in 2021
Failed to prevent sex crimes
Example?
Scotland police was made in 2013 the cases have Gone up around 90,000 per year to 12,000
Protect the public
Example?
8000 people in Scotland are in prison
Rehabilitate offenders
Example?
In 2019 3.4 Million was used to educate prisoners
Overcrowding
Example?
January 2019 Barlin was found to be going over their capacity limit by 37%
High reoffending rates for drug users
Example?
Rate is 58% for those following the drug treatment + testing order
Fines
Example?
If someone is caught they pay £80
Electric tagging
Example
Used on gang members to cheak their night activity
More cost efficient
Example?
Standard prison sentence = 80,000
Alternatives = 19,000
Per offender
Less likely to reoffend
Example?
People who serve have 14% less chance of redoing the crime according to Howard legue for personal reform
