Modern Britain

• what crimes are continuity?

  theft

  smuggling
• what crime increased?

  people trafficking
• what was the problems with cybercrimes?

  they happened on large scales as thousands of people could be targeted at once and perpetrators can be from overseas making it hard for police to capture
• what is an example of terrorism?

  7 July 2005

  4 suicide bombers attacked central London

  4 bombs went off

  52 people died

  770 injured
• what was the 1967 sexual offences act?

  decriminalised homosexuality for men over 21
• what was the 1967 Abortion act?

  decriminalised abortion in certain situations
• what was the 1968 race relations act?

  illegal to discriminate against someone because of their race or ethnicity
• what was the 2005 criminal justice act?

  allowed more severe sentences for hate crimes
• what was the 2006 racial and religious hatred act?

  made spreading racial or religious hatred a crime
• what was the misuse of drugs act in 1971?

  taking or supplying substances is illegal in the UK
• examples of driving crimes

  driving under the influence of drugs

  driving without insurance

  speeding

  ignoring traffic lights or road signs

  driving while using a phone
• changes in policing

  -motorised transport meant police can reach crimes faster

  -some officers were armed and looked like soldiers

  -police force has women and ethnic groups
• what does the national crime agency do?

  detects and prevents serious organised crime
• what does the special branch do?

  prevent all forms of terrorism
• what does the neighbourhood watch do?

  1982

  volunteers prevent and detect crimes in their neighbourhood

  increase vigilance and education to prevent crime and reduce fear of crime
• what technology was introduced?

  radios

  DNA evidence

  CCTV

  cars

  finger prints

  computers
• when was capital punishment abolished?

  1998
• examples of controversial cases

  Timothy Evans

  Derek Bentley

  Ruth Ellis
• types of prisons

  open prisons

  high security prisons
• when was hard labour in prison abolished?

  1948
• where were young offenders kept?

  borstals

  early 1900s

  educated offenders
• what were new punishments?

  community service

  electronic tagging
• what was the Derek Bentley case?

  19 year old Bentley had a mental age of 10

  16 year old Craig

  Craig shot a policeman

  Bentley shouted "Let him have it"
• what happened with the Derek Bentley case?

  both convicted of murder

  Craig sentenced to a long prison term

  Bentley sentenced to death by hanging

  hanged 28 January 1953
• what was the public opinion of the Derek Bentley case?

  motion to reprieve Bentley was supported by 200MPs

  got pardoned in 1993

  his conviction for murder was overturned in 1998
• how many COs in the first world war?

  16,000
• how many COs in second world war?

  59,000
• what was the treatment of COs in the first world war?

  imprisoned with brutal treatment and hard labour

  10 died in prison

  31 had breakdowns
• what was the treatment of COs in second world war?

  small percentage sent to prison but not harshly treated
• how did the public treat COs?

  shouted at in streets

  physically abused

  hard to get work

  dismissed from jobs
• what did dogs do?

  1950s

  sniff out drugs

  find explosives

  track criminals

  search missing people