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AC1.3 Explain the consequences of
unreported crime:
There is several consequences of unreported crime, one of those is the known as “The Ripple
effect” this effect describes the impact of the crime in the victim and how it normally spread
beyond the victim to other people like friends, family and relatives, it can be likened to the idea
of a pebble being dropped in water, that pebble create ripples that spread across the surface of
water. An example of a ripple effect can be seen in the individual crimes of hate crimes and
domestic abuse; in hate crimes the offence can be directed to an individual but the message
spreads a wave of harm and a warning throughout the whole community (like the LGTBQ+
community or the BLM one). In domestic abuse abusers are often abused as children or
tennagers, if it goes unreported it can appear it can pass as acceptable and then repeat it as
adults causing a ripple effect. That abuse can affect other family members and neighbours who
witness those accidents.

A second consequence of unreported crime is cultural consequences. This describes how
people from different cultures may have their own beliefs, traditions and opinions and
sometimes those traditions that they see as acceptable and normal are against the UK law
because in the legal system and in British society things that those cultural traditions contain are
unacceptable and criminal. A clear example of cultural consequences is FGM (female genital
mutilation) , FGm is a severe crime in the UK with a maximum of 14 years in jail, but in some
cultures FGM is a normal tradition, therefore the offenders in these communities belive that if
they offend they are nor going to receive a punishment, which sadly lead to high rates of
offences involving FGM, as a result of that, the crime is likely to be underreported by the
members of the community where the victims and the offender belongs too.

Another consequence of unreported crime is Decriminalisation, Some actions even if they are
against the law are widespread in modern society, decriminalisation means that a particular
offence is treated as a minor offence even if in the past it was taken more seriously. Normally
this leads to the penalty of the offence being a warning or a small fine, but the crime is still
illegal. An example of decriminalisation is that now a large number of citizens use or have used
cannabis even if it is illegal. Many people from the public see this offence as a “victimless crime”
or it’s even considered as harmless for some other people which causes the crime to go
unreported, even if a criminal offence is still committed.

A consequence that is similar to decriminalisation is Legal change, this is when a country
change its laws and something that was considered a crime now passes as not being an
offence and it’s considered as something harmless, sometimes the legal change is the “next
step” of decriminalisation, this is because once a criminal act have been decriminalised in
society, they law might choose to legalise the act, this means that the law have actually changed
to fit and reflect the society views. A clear example of this was the legalisation of homosexuality

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