Unit 4 AC3.4 criminology WJEC Flashcards

Unit 4 crime and punishment




AC 3.4
Evaluate the effectiveness of
agencies in achieving social
control
QUESTION



Agencies:
Government sponsored agencies:
• Prisons
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• Police
• Judiciary
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• NPS
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• CPS
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Charities + Pressure Groups




ANSWER

, Prisons
Explain two ways in which prison are
effective in achieving social control




QUESTION
Provides rehabilitation programmes Protects public from harm

> One strength of the Prison Service is
> Another strength of the prison
that it provides programmes to help
service is that it protects the public
offenders rehabilitate and reform their
from harm.
behaviour.
> For example, there are currently 66
> Statistics suggest that fewer than half of
prisoners serving whole life tariffs
the male prison population have the
which means for the public's safety
expected literacy skills of an 11 year old,
these offenders will never be released.
holding them back from navigating the
Such offenders include Rosemary
path of a crime free life. The National
West who was convicted of the murder
Literacy Trust and The Shannon Trust
of 10 women. Furthermore, prisons
have been awarded £1.8 million to for
have a category system in which the
reading and writing skills programmes in
most high risk offenders are housed
prisons.
under category A which is the most
> This shows the Prison service is
secure, for example HMP Frankland.
effective in achieving social control
> This shows the Prison service is
because as by increasing the literacy
effective in achieving social control
skills of prisons it will increase their
because the public are protected from
chances of securing work once they leave
the most serious offenders.
prison and therefore reduce offenders
need to reoffend.
ANSWER