Social Developments: Developments in Crime during Major's time as PM

Question 1

What happened in Scotland regarding crime? What year?

Answer 1

There was a school shooting in 1996

Question 2

What happened to prison sentencing in 1996?

Answer 2

Mandatory sentences were created

Question 3

What was the aim of creating mandatory sentences?

Answer 3

To deter people from crime

Question 4

How did local councils feel about the change to offender sentencing?

Answer 4

They felt their power had been taken from them

Question 5

When was the Criminal Justice Act passed?

Answer 5

1994

Question 6

What was classified as a crime under the 1994 Criminal Justice Act?

Answer 6

Rape in Marriage

Question 7

What did the 1994 Criminal Justice Act do with raves?

Answer 7

Made the police able to shut down raves

Question 8

What was the public response to police being able to shut down raves?

Answer 8

Reclaim The Streets activist group was set up

Question 9

What did many Conservative MP’s blame the rise in crime on?

Answer 9

The permissive society of the 1960s

Question 10

What was the role of Tony Blair in Labour before 1997?

Answer 10

Shadow Home Secretary

Question 11

What did Tony Blair say to Conservative explanations of crime increases?

Answer 11

It was not because of the permissive society