policies + campaigns

• Discuss how campaigns led by individuals affect policy making:

  Exam question

  • Ann Ming's campaign, to convince the government to abolish the double jeopardy law for murder resulted in the provision in the criminal justice act 2003. Now it is possible for a person to be charged more than once for the same criminal offence. E.g. Billy Dunlop.
• Discuss how campaigns led by individuals affect policy making:

  Exam questions

  • Sarah Payne's campaign to introduce the child sex offender disclosure scheme after the death of her daughter Sarah. This sought the assistance of the news of the world, and a petition was organised by way of support.
• Exam question:

  Discuss how campaigns led by individuals affect policy making:

  • Bobby Turnbull's gun law campaign to chnage gun laws following the death of his mother and other members of his family. The campaign saw Bobby Turnbull regularly appear in the media seeking support. He also lobbied MPs in his pursuit if the changed. Resulted in amendments to the firearms act 1968.
• Exam question:

  Explain why some laws such as the Vagrancy Act 1824 have not been subject to change:

  • Social/legal/moral/cultural reasons.
  • The process of making/changing a law can be slow.
  • Law can be left to fall out of usage rather than changing it.
  • Parliamentary time is in demand and used for more urgent issues.
  • Reasons for passing law may still be applied today- change unnecessary.
  • victimless crime
• AC 1.2: How laws change over time:

  • Capital/corporal punishment
  • Double jeopardy law
  • gun control law
  • laws surrounding prostitution
  • vagrancy
  • laws relating to children
  • drug laws (including Portugal)
• AC 1.2: How laws change from culture to culture:

  • Honour crime
  • Polygamy
  • Homosexuality
  • Cannabis
  • Adultery
• Sociological policies:

  • restoritive justice
  • cctv
  • profiling
  • imprisonment
  • zero tolerance
  • crime control policies
  • penal populism
• biological policies:

  • Biochemical
  • death penalty
  • eugenics
• individualistic policies:

  • aversion therapy
  • behaviour modification
  • psychoanalysis
  • CBT