Government Responses to crime

• Ways government tries to reduce crime rates

  • Alcohol legislation (minimum unit pricing)
  • Violence Reduction Unit
  • Reoffending law
• Alcohol legislation (minimum unit pricing)

  Sets a 50p minimum price per unit of alcohol to make alcohol less affordable and reduce alcohol-related crime
• Violence Reduction Unit


  Set up in 2005 to treat gang violence as a public health issue and break up Glasgow's gangs by offering members an alternative to the life they were living via education
• Reoffending law


  Changed guidance on sentencing for judges so that nobody should normally be given a prison sentence of less than 12 months, instead given a non-custodial sentence