Criminology Past Paper Unit 4: Crime and Punishment

Question 1

Briefly describe what is meant by internal social control (4 marks).

Answer 1

Social control refers to techniques and strategies for preventing criminal behaviour within society. Internal social control involves regulating one’s own beahaviour in accordance with accepted forms. It can be seen as one one’s conscience, customs of values. It may be linked to religion or family traditions. We conform to rules because our sense of self-respect demands it. Internal social control allows for the internalisation of social rules and morality. For example, religious fasts, etc.

Question 2

Examine the weaknesses of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) in achieving social control (6 marks).

Answer 2

The CPS is an over-centralised and a bureaucratic organisation.

Question 3

Explain how the police may be percieved as an external form of social control (6 marks).

Question 4

Briefly describe how the judiciary can contribute to law making (4 marks).

Question 5

Evaluate the effectiveness of the police and the probation service in achieving social control (9 marks).

Question 6

Identify how state prisons are funded (1 mark).

Question 7

Identify two aims of prison (2 marks).

Question 8

Breifly explain the role of charities, such as a Broken System, in social control (4 marks).

Question 9

Describe the contribution of environmental tactics and measures that are used by agencies to achieve social control (9 marks).

Question 10

Assess how prison sentences and community orders meet the aims of punishment (9 marks).