vulnerability Flashcards
Section 1 Slavery
Person holds another person in slavery or servitude and that person knows or ought to know that the other person is held in slavery or servitude or a person requires another person to perform forced or compulsory labour.
When the status of a person over whom any powers attaching the right of ownership are exercised. Servitude- denial of freedom
Section 2 Trafficking
Person commits the offence if the person arranges or facilitates the travel of another person with a view to that person being exploited.
3 phases of trafficking- Recruitment, Transit, destination
MAPPA
Multi agency public protection arrangements
Protecting the public from sexual and/ or violent offenders
VISOR
Violent and sex offenders register
Information about offenders is stored on here
SHPO
Sexual Harm Prevention Order- court order if police feel there is a specific concern about an individual.
Anticipated Plea
A guilty plea is when the suspect has made a clear admission to the offence and has said nothing to be used as a defence.
or the suspect has made no admission but has not denied the offence or otherwise indicated and the commission of the offence and identification of the offender can be proved by reliable evidence
Anti social behaviour orders
Criminal behaviour order- back of a conviction
Community protection notice - over 16
Injuction- over 18
Public spaces protection order- prohibits certain actions
Dispersal powers- lasts 48 hours
Sex workers/ prostitution. Section 1 street offences act
it is an offence for a person aged over 18 persistently to loiter or solicit in a street or public place for the purpose of prositution.
Summary offence
Section 51 sexual offences act- soliciting to obtain services of a prostitute
It is an offence for a person in a street or public place to solicit another for the purpose of obtaining sexual services as a prostitute.
Summary offence
Harassment. Section 1 prohibits
A person must not pursue a course of conduct which amounts to harassment of another and which he knows or ought to know amounts to harassment of the other.
Points to prove- course of conduct which amounted to harassment which he knew or ought to know would mount tp harassment
Harassment section 2 Summary offence
A person who pursues a course of conduct in breach of section 1 is guilty of an offence.
Defences to harassment
was in the prevention of crime
that it was being carried out under an act of law
in the circumstances the conduct was reasonable
Would a reasonable person consider it to be harassment
Section 4 harassment fear of violence- Either way
A person whose course of conduct causes another to fear on at least two occasions that violence will be used against him is guilty of an offence if he knows or ought to know that his course of conduct will cause another to fear.
Section 16 Threats to kill- either way
A person who without lawful excuse makes to another a threat intending that the other would fear it be carried out to kill that other or third person
person receiving the threat would fear the threat
Section 2A Stalking- Summary
Fixated Obsessed Unwanted Repeated
Person pursues a course of conduct in breach of section 1 and that conduct amounted to stalking and which they knew or ought to know that course of conduct amounted to harassment
Stalking fear of violence or serious alarm or distress- either way
A more serious stalking offence of causing another to fear on at least two occasions that violence will be used against them or causes them serious alarm or distress which has a serious effect on their everyday lives
Restraining orders Section 5- Either way
Anyone who without reasonable excuse does anything which he is prohibited from doing by an order under this section.
Section 3 Civil remedy- injunctions - either way
Anyone who without reasonable excuse breaches a stalking protection order.
Harassment
Would the suspects behaviour likely continue if the underlying problem continued but the individual concerned was different. Harassment is generally focused on a dispute rather than an individual.
Domestic abuse
Behaviour of a person towards another person is domestic abuse if both persons are aged 16 and over and personally connected to each other related or intimate.
Contact SPOC- Single point of contact
DASH
Domestic Abuse Stalking and Honour
Set list of questions to carry out at any domestic incident
Section 76 serious crime act- Domestic abuse- either way
A person commits an offence if they continuously engage in behaviour towards another person that is controlling or coercive, at the time of the behaviour the people are personally connected and the behaviour has a serious effect on the other and the offender ought to know that the behaviour will have a serious effect on the other.
High risk domestic abuse cases contact MARAC
Occupation orders- one partner can remain at the property- civil order
Domestic violence protection notice- stops them attending property between 14- 28 days
Domestic violence disclosure scheme- right to ask for information, right to know, extra protection
Non molestation and restraining orders are the same- stop offenders contacting the victim, power of arrest if breached
