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There are 8 consequences of unreported crime. These are the ripple
effect, cultural consequences, decriminalisation, police prioritisation,
unrecorded crime, cultural change, legal change and procedural change.
The ripple effect is how the impact of the crime can spread beyond the
immediate victim. This could spread throughout their family and friends
or could impact a whole community. This is a negative effect of
unreported crimes, not reporting a crime can effect other people.
Examples of a ripple effect are, if somebody has an abusive partner and
they don’t report that abuse that partner could then go on to abuse more
people, for example if they have children that abuse might spread from
the partner to the children, it could also spread even if the partner does
not pass on that abuse to the children however they would still be
effected by that abuse as they will see it happening. Another example
could be if you see somebody stealing, and you don’t report it they could
think that they are getting away with it and do it to somebody else and
then if they don’t report it they’ll keep doing it as they are not facing any
consequences for their crimes. Cultural consequences are something
that impact or effect on a society or a culture. This is a negative effect of
unreported crime as it could lead to normalisation of behaviour, such as
honour crimes, it could have effects on socialisation (how we learn), it
could escalate further behaviours they could keep repeating the same
crime or progressively got worse as it is being normalised and nobody is
doing anything. Examples of this could be forced marriages, if people are
forcing their children into unwanted marriages and nobody is doing
anything about it the children will think its normal other people will think
its normal and nothing will get done about it. This could also be gun
ownership, in some places it is culturally acceptable to own a gun, this is
because over time it just became normal for everybody to own a gun, this
is the same with weed in some countries some countries have that many
users that it is seen as culturally normal and acceptable.
Decriminalisation is when something that was illegal becomes legal.
This can be a positive side to unreported crime, this is because if nobody
is reporting crimes it is usually something society no longer cares about
and is becoming normal, for example homosexuality, it became legal as
nobody was reporting people who are homosexual and police did not care
about it anybody. For something to be decriminalised there is a chain.
Lack of concern/interestnot seen as real offenceslack of reporting
(publicly decriminalised)police chose not to prioritiseless time/money
spentmay be legalised (decriminalised)
Police prioritisation is when certain crimes are more important than
others. This could be a positive effect of unreported crimes as police have
a limited budget, and they follow the needs of the local communities. The
There are 8 consequences of unreported crime. These are the ripple
effect, cultural consequences, decriminalisation, police prioritisation,
unrecorded crime, cultural change, legal change and procedural change.
The ripple effect is how the impact of the crime can spread beyond the
immediate victim. This could spread throughout their family and friends
or could impact a whole community. This is a negative effect of
unreported crimes, not reporting a crime can effect other people.
Examples of a ripple effect are, if somebody has an abusive partner and
they don’t report that abuse that partner could then go on to abuse more
people, for example if they have children that abuse might spread from
the partner to the children, it could also spread even if the partner does
not pass on that abuse to the children however they would still be
effected by that abuse as they will see it happening. Another example
could be if you see somebody stealing, and you don’t report it they could
think that they are getting away with it and do it to somebody else and
then if they don’t report it they’ll keep doing it as they are not facing any
consequences for their crimes. Cultural consequences are something
that impact or effect on a society or a culture. This is a negative effect of
unreported crime as it could lead to normalisation of behaviour, such as
honour crimes, it could have effects on socialisation (how we learn), it
could escalate further behaviours they could keep repeating the same
crime or progressively got worse as it is being normalised and nobody is
doing anything. Examples of this could be forced marriages, if people are
forcing their children into unwanted marriages and nobody is doing
anything about it the children will think its normal other people will think
its normal and nothing will get done about it. This could also be gun
ownership, in some places it is culturally acceptable to own a gun, this is
because over time it just became normal for everybody to own a gun, this
is the same with weed in some countries some countries have that many
users that it is seen as culturally normal and acceptable.
Decriminalisation is when something that was illegal becomes legal.
This can be a positive side to unreported crime, this is because if nobody
is reporting crimes it is usually something society no longer cares about
and is becoming normal, for example homosexuality, it became legal as
nobody was reporting people who are homosexual and police did not care
about it anybody. For something to be decriminalised there is a chain.
Lack of concern/interestnot seen as real offenceslack of reporting
(publicly decriminalised)police chose not to prioritiseless time/money
spentmay be legalised (decriminalised)
Police prioritisation is when certain crimes are more important than
others. This could be a positive effect of unreported crimes as police have
a limited budget, and they follow the needs of the local communities. The
