Crime And Law (Memo) Flashcards
Extent of crime (increasing)?
–> knife crime
–> domestic crime
–> drug crime
Extent of crime (decreasing)
–> knife crime
–> religion hate crime
Why are crimes for knife and hate decreasing?
Programs and ways to get help
Biological causes of crime?
–> gentic abnormalities
–> born evil
–> mental health issues
Social causes of crime?
–> poor parenting
–> peer pressure
–> alcohol consumption
Victims and families?
Thing that can happen?
–> long term mental issues
–> financial difficulties
–> stigmatised
Perpetrator?
–> criminal record
–> homelessness
–> prison sentence
Consequence of crime on communities?
–> unemployment
–> environmental poverty
–> fear in the community
Prison sentence?
Losing contact with their family
Feeling isolated.
Wider society?
–> cost to consumer
–> less money to public services
–> tourism industry suffers
Cost to consumer?
Spend more money to keep place safe install cameras and anti theft tags
Tourism suffers?
The place will seem less good when crime happen
Less money for public services?
Not enough for education and health when all spent on something else.
Role and structure of criminal courts?
–> punishing guity people
–> provide justice to keep public safe
Provide justice
Make sure victims get support while criminals pay the price for what they done.
Punish the guilty?
Show them the consequences for their crime this would act as a discouragement to reoffend
Keep the public safe?
To stop this from happening again with someone else
Why are courts effective?
–> keep public safe
–> provide justice for victims
–> punish the guilty
Reasons why courts are ineffective?
–> guilty get away
–> doesn’t give discouragement for crime
–> reoffending is likely
The court doesn’t act like a discouragement for crime?
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
Powers of child hearing?
–> organise supervision
–> remove child from home
–> secure attendance
Secure attendance?
Make sure child is there for hearing
Remove child from home?
If its not good in home children can be removed and put into other homes to be taken care of
Organise supervision?
The social worker checking up on child to make sure they are ok
Positive crime things from government responses to crime.
–> reduse number of knife crimes
–> fight causes of knife crime
–> reduse number of alcohol related crimes
Ineffective responses of crime by the government?
–> knife crime is still a problem
–> alcohol crime is still a problem
–> violence crime is a big problem
Knife crime is still a problem?
It’s still something that happened despite programs
Roles and structure of police Scotland?
–> detect crime
–> maintain law and order
–> prevent crime
Detect crime?
Respond to crimes and solve them
Prevent crimes?
Stop them early from happening
Violent crime is still a big problem?
There’s still high cases of violence crimes happen
Powers of Scotland police
–> arrest
–> search
–> entry
How is police Scotland fighting crime effectively
–> investigations
–> stop + search tactic
–> early intervention
Stop and searching tactic?
Stopping suspicious people and search them
How police Scotland is ineffective in fighting crime?
–> fail in preventing drug pandemic
–> fail on prevention of sex crimes
–>fail preventing violence crimes
Purpose of prisons?
–> help prisons rehabilitate
–> protect public
–> provide justice
Fail in preventing sex crimes?
Even though police try, it’s been not successful, fail to educated people
Fail to prevent violence crime?
Violent crime has been rising
Fail to prevent drug pandemic
Fail into getting drugs off streets and putting dealers in jail
Rehabilitation for prisoners?
Reform and educated prisoners so they won’t reoffend
Alternatives to prisons?
–> fines
–> community payback orders
–> Road trafficking penalties
Fines?
Money payments
Big crime = Big fine
Small crime = small fine
Community payback order?
Litter cleaning graffiti cleaning repair and redecorate centers.
Making the criminal learn
Road traffic Penally?
Takes points off driving licence
Why are alternatives for prisons better than prisons?
–> costs less
–> reoffending is unlikely
–> better rehabilitation
