WJEC Criminology Unit 4| Questions and Verified Answers| 100% Correct| A Grade (2024/ 2025 Update)
QUESTION
Examples of altering the physical
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Answer:
Creating open spaces with good lighting.
A lack of hiding places.
Low level bushes allowing a visible sight line.
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Gated lanes
Answer:
Gates installed at the entrance to rear alleyways to deter burglars.
QUESTION
What are some different prison designs?
Answer:
The panopticon (all-seeing) shape.
American "supermax" jails to segregate prisoners posing the highest security risk. Bastoy Prison, Norway: A "human ecological prison" and "self-sustaining village".
QUESTION
ASBOs (Anti Social Behaviour Orders)
Answer:
A court order obtained by local au- thorities to restrict the behaviour of a person likely to cause harm or distress to the public.
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Criminal Behaviour Order
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An order tackling the most serious anti-social indi- viduals when their behaviour has brought them before a criminal court.
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Token economy
Answer:
A scheme to increase desirable behaviour and decrease
anti-social behaviour through the use of tokens which can be exchanged for objects or privileges..
They are often used in prisons.
QUESTION
What punishments can be used to control the behaviour of prisoners?
Answer:
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Cellular confinement
Removal of privileges
Money can be stopped
QUESTION
What gaps in state provision can prevent laws being implemented?
Answer:
Unre- ported crime
Budget cuts
Laws which prevent other laws being implemented (e.g. Human Rights Act)
QUESTION
Recidivism
Answer:
The tendency of convicted criminals to reoffend.
QUESTION
Abu Qatada
Answer:
He was a hate preacher who the government wanted to deport to Jordan, but were prevented from doing so by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) which ruled that there was a risk he would be tortured.
QUESTION
Examples of how a lack of access to resources and support may contribute to previous reoffending.
Answer:
Lack of access to education in prison.
Lack of meaningful work in prison.
Housing benefit stops for those sentenced to more than 13 weeks, meaning that many people lose their housing.
Lack of access to mental health services.
QUESTION
How have budget cuts affected different agencies?
Answer:
Cuts in the police ser- vice may mean that police are unable to detect and prevent crime.
Cuts in the prison service may mean that prison officers fail to keep control of prisons.
Cuts in the budget of the CPS may lead to miscarriages of justice. [Show Less]