Policies Flashcards
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What are the two Individual campaigns?
Clare’s Law (Murdered by ex-boyfriend) and Ann Ming (double jeopardy)
What are the two Pressure Group Campaigns?
Protection Against Stalking (Claire Bernal shot dead by her stalker) and Snowdrop (school shooting and 1989 gun reform)
What are the two Newspaper Campaigns?
Sarah’s Law (Roy Whiting kills girl after SA’ing another) and “The Year & A Day” (David Clark free due to year and a day rule)
What are the biological policies?
Castration, Eugenics, Diet, Death Penalty
What are the two demographic changes which affect policy development?
Immigration + Drunk Driving
What is the cultural change which affects policy development?
Homosexuality
What are the two public perceptions of crime which affected policy development?
Smoking + Drink Driving
What are the Right Realism Policies?
Penal Populism, ZERO Tolerance, Prison
What is penal populism?
Law introduces new crimes to see what is popular, is a good deterrent but leads to full prisons
Zero Tolerance Strengths
NYC crime rates fell by 39%, Hartlepool lost 38% in 28 months
Zero Tolerance weaknesses
NYC actually fell due to less drugs, displacement, police being heavyhanded
What are the two Left Realism policies?
Multi-agent working, restorative justice
What is multi-agency working and why is it good?
Tackling crime’s root, good as it introduced health care to prison and put all criminal records on national databases
Why is multi-agency working ineffective?
Agencies don’t utilise having all criminal records well, failure to act upon or share evidence
What is restorative justice and why is it good?
Victim and Criminal meet up if they both consent. Good as it helps reduce reoffending and lowered reinprisonment rates
