Crime And Law (Memo)

Question 1

Extent of crime (increasing)?

Answer 1

–> knife crime
–> domestic crime
–> drug crime

Question 2

Extent of crime (decreasing)

Answer 2

–> knife crime
–> religion hate crime

Question 3

Why are crimes for knife and hate decreasing?

Answer 3

Programs and ways to get help

Question 4

Biological causes of crime?

Answer 4

–> gentic abnormalities
–> born evil
–> mental health issues

Question 5

Social causes of crime?

Answer 5

–> poor parenting
–> peer pressure
–> alcohol consumption

Question 6

Victims and families?
Thing that can happen?

Answer 6

–> long term mental issues
–> financial difficulties
–> stigmatised

Question 7

Perpetrator?

Answer 7

–> criminal record
–> homelessness
–> prison sentence

Question 8

Consequence of crime on communities?

Answer 8

–> unemployment
–> environmental poverty
–> fear in the community

Question 9

Prison sentence?

Answer 9

Losing contact with their family
Feeling isolated.

Question 10

Wider society?

Answer 10

–> cost to consumer
–> less money to public services
–> tourism industry suffers

Question 11

Cost to consumer?

Answer 11

Spend more money to keep place safe install cameras and anti theft tags

Question 12

Tourism suffers?

Answer 12

The place will seem less good when crime happen

Question 13

Less money for public services?

Answer 13

Not enough for education and health when all spent on something else.

Question 14

Role and structure of criminal courts?

Answer 14

–> punishing guity people
–> provide justice to keep public safe

Question 15

Provide justice

Answer 15

Make sure victims get support while criminals pay the price for what they done.

Question 16

Punish the guilty?

Answer 16

Show them the consequences for their crime this would act as a discouragement to reoffend

Question 17

Keep the public safe?

Answer 17

To stop this from happening again with someone else

Question 18

Why are courts effective?

Answer 18

–> keep public safe
–> provide justice for victims
–> punish the guilty

Question 19

Reasons why courts are ineffective?

Answer 19

–> guilty get away
–> doesn’t give discouragement for crime
–> reoffending is likely

Question 20

The court doesn’t act like a discouragement for crime?

Answer 20

If you eat a cookie and your mom only looks at you, you will be encouraged to do it again because there’s no real consequences

Question 21

Powers of child hearing?

Answer 21

–> organise supervision
–> remove child from home
–> secure attendance

Question 22

Secure attendance?

Answer 22

Make sure child is there for hearing

Question 23

Remove child from home?

Answer 23

If its not good in home children can be removed and put into other homes to be taken care of

Question 24

Organise supervision?

Answer 24

The social worker checking up on child to make sure they are ok

Question 25

Positive crime things from government responses to crime.

Answer 25

--> reduse number of knife crimes --> fight causes of knife crime --> reduse number of alcohol related crimes

Question 26

Ineffective responses of crime by the government?

Answer 26

--> knife crime is still a problem --> alcohol crime is still a problem --> violence crime is a big problem

Question 27

Knife crime is still a problem?

Answer 27

It's still something that happened despite programs

Question 28

Roles and structure of police Scotland?

Answer 28

--> detect crime --> maintain law and order --> prevent crime

Question 29

Detect crime?

Answer 29

Respond to crimes and solve them

Question 30

Prevent crimes?

Answer 30

Stop them early from happening

Question 31

Violent crime is still a big problem?

Answer 31

There's still high cases of violence crimes happen

Question 32

Powers of Scotland police

Answer 32

--> arrest --> search --> entry

Question 33

How is police Scotland fighting crime effectively

Answer 33

--> investigations --> stop + search tactic --> early intervention

Question 34

Stop and searching tactic?

Answer 34

Stopping suspicious people and search them

Question 35

How police Scotland is ineffective in fighting crime?

Answer 35

--> fail in preventing drug pandemic --> fail on prevention of sex crimes -->fail preventing violence crimes

Question 36

Purpose of prisons?

Answer 36

--> help prisons rehabilitate --> protect public --> provide justice

Question 37

Fail in preventing sex crimes?

Answer 37

Even though police try, it's been not successful, fail to educated people

Question 38

Fail to prevent violence crime?

Answer 38

Violent crime has been rising

Question 39

Fail to prevent drug pandemic

Answer 39

Fail into getting drugs off streets and putting dealers in jail

Question 40

Rehabilitation for prisoners?

Answer 40

Reform and educated prisoners so they won't reoffend

Question 41

Alternatives to prisons?

Answer 41

--> fines --> community payback orders --> Road trafficking penalties

Question 42

Fines?

Answer 42

Money payments Big crime = Big fine Small crime = small fine

Question 43

Community payback order?

Answer 43

Litter cleaning graffiti cleaning repair and redecorate centers. Making the criminal learn

Question 44

Road traffic Penally?

Answer 44

Takes points off driving licence

Question 45

Why are alternatives for prisons better than prisons?

Answer 45

--> costs less --> reoffending is unlikely --> better rehabilitation