Unit 1

Question 1

What is meant when a crime is said to be a ‘hidden crime’?

Answer 1

Because they tend to go under-reported by the victims and the media doesn’t report them to the wider public.

Question 2

What are individual crimes?

Answer 2

These are crimes perpetrated against one person. These can include assault, battery, homicide, fraud, hate crime etc.

Question 3

Define a hate crime.

Answer 3

A criminal motivated by racial, sexual or other prejudice typically involving violence.
Incident may involve physical assault, damage to property, bullying, harassment, hate mail.

Question 4

How many hate crimes were recorded by the police in 2014/15?

Answer 4

52,528, a 18% since 2013/14

82% of this was race hate crime.

Question 5

Define a honour crime.

Answer 5

Violence committed by people who want to defend the reputation of their family/ community.
It is a murder of a person accused of bringing shame upon his/her family.

Question 6

Who are the likely victims of honour crimes?

Answer 6

• Crime is committed by a family member against female relatives.
• 25% of cases involved people under the age of 18.
• Up to 12 a year (south Asian/ middle Eastern families)

Question 7

When were laws against forced marriages introduced into the England, Wales + N.Ireland?

Answer 7

November 2008

Anyone convicted of trying to force a marriage can be jailed for up to 2 years.

Question 8

Give an example of an honour killing.

Answer 8

Banaz Mahmad (1986-2006)

Question 9

Define domestic abuse?

Answer 9

Under UK law it is any incident/ pattern of controlling, coercive, threatening behaviour or violence between those who are or have been intimate partners or family members.
Abuse can be physical/ sexual/ psychological/ financial/ emotional.

Question 10

What are the domestic abuse stats for both men and women?

Answer 10

Men: 1 in 6
Women: 1 in 4 in a lifetime.

Question 11

How many women are killed each week as a result of domestic abuse?

Answer 11

2

Question 12

How many men are killed each year as a result of domestic abuse?

Answer 12

12

Question 13

What percentage of all violent crimes amount to domestic abuse?

Answer 13

16% of all violent crimes and yet it is the least likely to be reported.
It is also 45% of all rapes.

Question 14

Explain Clare’s Law and why it was introduced.

Answer 14

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Question 15

Who are the victims in ‘crimes against morality’?

Answer 15

This category of crimes are considered to be ‘victimless’ because there is no specific victim.
e.g. prostitution

Question 16

Define prostitution.

Answer 16

To exchange sexual services for money.

Question 17

Is prostitution illegal?

Answer 17

NO but some related activities are:

• soliciting in a public place
• managing a brothel
• pimping
• illegal if the prostitute has been ‘subjected to force’
• illegal to but sex from someone under the age of 18.

Question 18

Why are prostitutes more likely to be victims of crime?

Answer 18

• high risk lifestyle.

Question 19

What was the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 intended to do?

Answer 19

Intended to prevent the non medical use of certain drugs.