My notes for Changing Awareness of Crime AC 1.3 - explain the consequences of unreported crime. In the controlled assessment, I achieved 96/100 (100/100 UMS marks).
Where a crime does not just affect the primary victim but will spread out across a whole
community or society to affect secondary victims.
What effect can the underreporting of crimes have?
Domestic violence/abuse
o Victim’s family, friends and teachers/employers can be affected.
House burglary
o Affects homeowners.
o Affects neighbours, as they become fearful the same will happen to them.
o House prices in the area decrease.
Cultural consequences
FGM
In 2011, an estimated 103,000 women aged 15-49 with FGM living in England and Wales (4.8
per 1,000 in the population).
Outlawed since 1985 but needs a more rigorous approach in education.
Honour crime
In 2019-20, 2,024 honour based offences in England and Wales. 74 of these offences were
FM and 140 were forced marriages.
A charity named Karma Nirvana runs a national helpline, offering training to professionals
and regularly working with the police, the NHS, teachers and the government.
Decriminalisation and legal change
What is meant by decriminalisation?
When a particular crime becomes widespread and the public stop reporting it as they no
longer view it as a crime.
What is meant by legal change?
The process of something being made legal through a change in the law.
Homosexuality in the UK
The Sexual Offences Act (1967) decriminalised homosexual acts carried out in private
between men in England and Wales. It also revised the maximum punishment for men
convicted of homosexual acts, changing it from life imprisonment to imprisonment of no
more than ten years. Although the age of consent for sex between men and women was 16,
this Act only decriminalised sex between men over the age of 21; it also did not cover the
Merchant Navy or the Armed Forces. The Act did not extend to Scotland or Northern Ireland.
Police prioritisation
What factors will affect the prioritising of the policing, in terms of targeting certain types of crime?
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