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Criminology Unit 1 - 1.3 - Consequences of Unreported Crime
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U1 AC 1.3 Consequences of Unreported CrimeConsequence Explanation & Effects Example(s)
Ripple Effect The ripple effect is the impact which can spread An example includes the case
further than the immediate victim, it is more than just of Leigh and Anita Turner. Their
the initial victim being affected. It has a knock on son murdered his partner.
effect impacting wider society. However, the parents destroyed
their son’s confession letter
committing a crime of
An example could be burglary. For example, if your perverting the course of justice
house was robbed on a street you may be fearful ending in a 27 month jail
and increase the security on your house, impacting sentence. This is the ripple effect
your life. As well as the other house owners on the since the son’s crime has
street may also be fearful that their house will be affected the parents and
robbed. This one crime is a ripple effect as it has resulted in the family being in
affected the whole street. jail.
A second example could be domestic abuse.
Abusers are often people who were abused during
their childhood or have witnessed it. If this goes
unreported or is unpunished, it repeats as adults thus
causing a ripple effect. It can also affect other
family members or neighbours who witness or hear
incidents may be affected.
Cultural Cultural differences are when something is An example includes the case
acceptable in some countries/communities and not of Kristy Bamu. He was a 15 year
in others. This could mean that some crimes are old boy being accused of
under-reported since the crime may not be witchcraft and then killed by his
recognised. If a crime is alien to someone, people own family. The family were
may ignore the actions as they might feel it has originally from Congo where the
nothing to do with them and they don’t want to belief in witchcraft was
interfere so the criminals believe they can continue acceptable in this different
without consequences. culture ( but murder isn’t). He
was drowned in a bath after
(This shows a lack of understanding and not
being tortured for several days
recognising it’s a crime from witnesses)
by accident when attempting
Such actions can be very shocking for those from to stop thier child ‘being
communities where certain crimes aren’t possessed’.
acceptable.
This impacts individuals in cases
such as Kirsty Bamu, is the
person’s death.
This impacts society by people
living nearby possibly being
shocked/ a shocking impact.
, Decriminalisation Decriminalisation is when a law is changed because Decriminalisation of cannabis
they can no longer enforce or impose it and it stops use:
being illegal. The government has no choice but to
decriminalise an action since the act cannot be
controlled since people no longer take notice of the In 2016, 47% of people in the uk
law. Such actions become more normalised supported the licensed sale of
amongst society. cannabis. One reason for this is
because the estimated 1 billion
People may tolerate drug use more as it becomes
in tax meant that the money
more socially acceptable. For example, the use of
generated would not be in the
cannabis happens quite often in the Uk as the police
hands of criminals.
choose not to act upon it.
In Canada, in 2018, the use of
Crimes go unreported when there is a lack of public
cannabis became legalised for
concern or because it is seen as a victimless crime.
those over 18.The purpose of this
Actions such as taking drugs, prostitution and illegal was to prevent the youth from
dowloads often are examples and aren’t seen as accessing cannabis and to
‘real’ crimes by the public so have publically displace the illegal cannabis
become decrimised. Although there are laws market. In 2019, the growth and
against, the punishments have been reduced. sale of cannabis became
Sometimes, these actions are sometimes legalised. legalised to prevent criminals
making money and to displace
the illegal market. For society,
Decriminalsoation can have positive effects on this means that the use of
society because it can mean that police put more cannabis became more
time and effort into more serious crimes. However, acceptable and to help
the act became a crime for a reason, and when increase the safety of children
decriminalised, these criminals may use that as an from accessing the drug.
excuse, resulting in more crimes. For example, drug
use may lead to domestic abuse etc.
Police The police often prioritise certain crimes therefore Knife Crime:
Prioritisation some crimes are not investigated. For example,
Knife crime is increasing in
sexual abuse crimes have been on the rise recently,
recent years. Therefore, In
but due to the cost and time of these cases, the
recent years, police have
police dont have the capactity to deal with all the
prioritized knife crime and stop
cases. This means that crimes go unreported since
and searches. Due to more
the public may feel that the police don’t have time
pb;lic awareness and media
to respond to their issue or when they are reported,
coverage of knife crime, the
they may not be investigated.
public demanded that the
police take more action on
preventing knife crime.
For example, the police in Durham have indicated
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