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Crime And Law (Memo) Flashcards

1
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Extent of crime (increasing)?

A

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

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Extent of crime (decreasing)

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–> knife crime
–> religion hate crime

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Why are crimes for knife and hate decreasing?

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Programs and ways to get help

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Biological causes of crime?

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

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Social causes of crime?

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

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Victims and families?
Thing that can happen?

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

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Perpetrator?

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–> criminal record
–> homelessness
–> prison sentence

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Consequence of crime on communities?

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

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Prison sentence?

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Losing contact with their family
Feeling isolated.

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Wider society?

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

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Cost to consumer?

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

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Tourism suffers?

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The place will seem less good when crime happen

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Less money for public services?

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

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Role and structure of criminal courts?

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

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Provide justice

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

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Punish the guilty?

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

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Keep the public safe?

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To stop this from happening again with someone else

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Why are courts effective?

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

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Reasons why courts are ineffective?

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

20
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The court doesn’t act like a discouragement for crime?

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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

21
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Powers of child hearing?

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

22
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Secure attendance?

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Make sure child is there for hearing

23
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Remove child from home?

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

24
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Organise supervision?

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

25
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Positive crime things from government responses to crime.

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

26
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Ineffective responses of crime by the government?

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

27
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Knife crime is still a problem?

A

It’s still something that happened despite programs

28
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Roles and structure of police Scotland?

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

29
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Detect crime?

A

Respond to crimes and solve them

30
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Prevent crimes?

A

Stop them early from happening

31
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Violent crime is still a big problem?

A

There’s still high cases of violence crimes happen

32
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Powers of Scotland police

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–> arrest
–> search
–> entry

33
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How is police Scotland fighting crime effectively

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

34
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Stop and searching tactic?

A

Stopping suspicious people and search them

35
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How police Scotland is ineffective in fighting crime?

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

36
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Purpose of prisons?

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

37
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Fail in preventing sex crimes?

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

38
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Fail to prevent violence crime?

A

Violent crime has been rising

39
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Fail to prevent drug pandemic

A

Fail into getting drugs off streets and putting dealers in jail

40
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Rehabilitation for prisoners?

A

Reform and educated prisoners so they won’t reoffend

41
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Alternatives to prisons?

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

42
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Fines?

A

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

43
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Community payback order?

A

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

44
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Road traffic Penally?

A

Takes points off driving licence

45
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Why are alternatives for prisons better than prisons?

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

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