AC3.4 evaluate the effectiveness of agencies in achieving social control

Question 1

police pros and cons

Answer 1

pros:
-work in community’s combating crime
- many specialist trained units e.g. dogs, forensics , detectives
cons:
- negatively portrayed in media
- institutionally racist ( e.g. Stephen Lawrence)
- received lots of backlash Sarah Everard

Question 2

pros and cons of CPS

Answer 2

pros:
- brings an independant eliment to the judicial process
- uses many successful methods such as full code test
cons:
- not always right, damilola taylor
- has funding problems

Question 3

pros and cons of judiciary

Answer 3

pros:
- brings the public in - jurys
- gives a chance of a judgement based on morals, r v owen

cons:
- can create lots of inncorrect verdicts
- not always reliable and can waste time r v young
- judges are seen to all come from the same background

Question 4

pros and cons of prison

Answer 4

pros:
- many charitys in place attempting reform
cons:
- reoffendoing rates (48%) rehabilitation is failing
- rising number of prisoners but lacking the officers

Question 5

pros and cons of probation

Answer 5

pros:
- it has partnered with other charity’s
- it gives help to released offenders to stop reoffending
cons:
- many prisoners are inadiqitly assessed
- many prisoners are released not knowing where there going to sleep or live

Question 6

pros and cons of charitys:

Answer 6

prison reform trust:
pros:
-2014- 50 million wqas invested in there schemes
- many other organisations have joined there charity
cons:
- they can only put pressure on government
- relys on donations
- princes trust:
pros:
- has helped over a million young people
- gets funding from royal family
cons:
- many charitys work in this field that compete with each other