C+P- Modern Britain 1900- Present

Question 1

Which two crimes are social crimes today? Why are they not actually new crimes?

Answer 1

• drink driving and speeding
• newer versions of it being illegal to drive a horse carriage drunk

Question 2

What type of drugs are banned in Britain?

Answer 2

Recreational drugs

Question 3

Why is there controversy and debate over taking drugs?

Answer 3

• personal choice?
• linked with theft and gangs

Question 4

Give four examples of social crimes today that are hard to track down since they are barely reported.

Answer 4

• underage drinking
• underage smoking
• pirating media
• speeding

Question 5

Around what year was homosexuality decriminalised?

Answer 5

1960s

Question 6

What FOUR new laws were introduced as homosexuality was decriminalised?

Answer 6

• homophobia classed as a hate crime (early 2000s)
• equality act (discrimination of homosexuals illegal)
• age of consent for H lowered to 16 (1994)
• same sex marriage legalised (2014)

Question 7

Why was abortion criminalised?

Answer 7

Strict religious belief and traditions

Question 8

Why was abortion decriminalised?

Answer 8

• growing liberal attitude
• danger of illegal abortions

Question 9

Around what time was abortion legalised?

Answer 9

Late 1960s

Question 10

Why were new race laws introduced?

Answer 10

• immigrants invited to help Britain after war
• extreme racist attitudes developed in some areas

Question 11

What law stops racism?

Answer 11

Race Relations law 1968

Question 12

Why was domestic violence initially ignored?

Answer 12

accepted as ‘private business’

Question 13

Why did domestic violence become a crime?

Answer 13

feminist campaigns
equality

Question 14

Around what year was domestic violence criminalised?

Answer 14

late 1900s

Question 15

What was the old crime of people trafficking/ slavery? How has this changed?

Answer 15

• orphaned girls sold into prostitution
• powerful gangs use violence blackmail
• use developments in transport/ tech to avoid capture

Question 16

What was old example of terrorism in Britain? What is a new example?

Answer 16

• Gunpowder plot
• Irish Republican Army/ Al Quaeda

Question 17

What has changed for the crime of smuggling?

Answer 17

• cheap alcohol and cigarettes rather than silk or tea
• speedboats/ planes/ goods lorries

Question 18

How has fraud crime changed?

Answer 18

• used to be via post or phone calls
• emails/ hacking

Question 19

What crime has been completely new?

Answer 19

Cybercrime

Question 20

What is the difference in the definition of copyright theft?

Answer 20

• used to be recording a film or video and selling it
• now when things are pirated/ illegally downloaded

Question 21

What was the police like in the early 1900s

Answer 21

• every region had police
• mostly paid
• starting to gain respect

Question 22

What were two major problems with policing in 1900?

Answer 22

• no sharing of info between police stations
• officers had to walk to report criminals

Question 23

What are two examples of early improvement to the police force?

Answer 23

• police diversity
• police training

Question 24

What do modern police officers do to prevent crime?

Answer 24

• teach at schools

Question 25

What crime prevention scheme is used in modern time that is similar to collective responsibility?

Answer 25

Neighbourhood Watch

Question 26

Name SIX new developments in technology that helped police?

Answer 26

Photography Fingerprinting Bicycles Police cars Bidirectional radios Police Phone box 999 emergency number Breathalysers CCTV National Police Computer Speed cameras DNA

Question 27

By what year were no crimes punishable by death?

Answer 27

1998

Question 28

What event led to the Declaration of human rights and what did this result in?

Answer 28

- Nazi atrocities - abolishment of the death penalty

Question 29

Why was the age of criminal responsibility introduced?

Answer 29

understanding of human science children did not have the ability to differentiate between right and wrong

Question 30

Which three wrongly convicted criminals enraged the public

Answer 30

Timothy Evans Derek Bentley Ruth Ellis

Question 31

What impact did the world wars have?

Answer 31

people began to see execution as barbaric and un-christian

Question 32

Which political was key in ending capital punishment?

Answer 32

Roy Jenkins

Question 33

What did Derek Bentley controversially say?

Answer 33

Let him have it, Chris!

Question 34

Why was the murder of Derek Bentley so important?

Answer 34

- showed the power of the media and people's opinion

Question 35

Why was Christopher let off without the death penalty?

Answer 35

He was sixteen

Question 36

What law did the hanging of Derek Bentley influence?

Answer 36

diminished responsibility for anyone proven to not have full control of their actions

Question 37

Why did Bentley have a mental disorder?

Answer 37

Serious head injury due to WW2 bomb

Question 38

What year was Bentley arrested?

Answer 38

1952

Question 39

What are 5 major differences in prisons?

Answer 39

- hard labour abolished - mentally ill prisoners treated elsewhere - probation introduced - education introduced for prisoners - parole - special prisons for children above 10 - electronic tagging

Question 40

Why were borstals abolished?

Answer 40

conditions seen as too harsh

Question 41

Who were conscientious objectors?

Answer 41

men who refused to join the army due to personal beliefs

Question 42

What was a tribunal?

Answer 42

Court case for conscientous objectors to prove that they had a genuine case

Question 43

What were COs offered during WW2?

Answer 43

Alternative work to help with the war effort in which prison became a last resort

Question 44

How did the government try to change public attitude toward COs?

Answer 44

- unmanly and feminine - shirking responsibility

Question 45

How were COs punished?

Answer 45

- prison/ granite quarries or solitary confinement - sent to fight anyways