Campaigns + Policy

Question 1

What are the 3 campaigns?

Answer 1

Pressure groups
Individual campaigns
Newspaper campaigns

Question 2

What is a pressure group?

Answer 2

Organisations that aim to influence government policies by gaining support and pursuading politicians

Question 3

What is an individual campaign?

Answer 3

Most campaigns start this was and are an individual who feels so strongly about a policy they take getting change into their own hands

Question 4

What is a newspaper campaigns?

Answer 4

Where newspapers can help to shape law by mobilising public opinion

Question 5

Examples of pressure groups

Answer 5

Snowdrop
Protection against stalking

Question 6

How is snowdrop a pressure group?

Answer 6

Larger number of campaigners
Used influence+support yo pressure governments

Question 7

Driving force if snowdrop campaign

Answer 7

16 children and a teacher were killed in a school shooting in Dundee and aimed for a ban of private ownership of handguns

Question 8

Snowdrop campaign methods

Answer 8

A petition with over 700,000 signatures
Letter printed in newspapers
Short film voiced by Sean connery

Question 9

What policy was introduced by snowdrop

Answer 9

Firearms (amendment) act 1997
Banned private ownership of handguns over a .22 calibre

Question 10

How is protection against stalking a pressure group ?

Answer 10

Large organisation and national charity
Pressured government into change

Question 11

Driving force of Protection against stalking

Answer 11

Poor quality of laws and inadequate training of professionals
Stalking had not been recognised as criminal

Question 12

Campaign methods for Protection against stalking

Answer 12

Independent parliamentary inquiry
Lobbying to gain support from MPs
Social media and educational events

Question 13

Policy introduced by Protection against stalking

Answer 13

Protection of freedoms act 2012
Made stalking a criminal offence outlined stalking

Question 14

What are the individual campaigns?

Answer 14

Clare’s law
Ann Ming’s double Jeopardy campaign

Question 15

How was Clare’s law and individual campaign?

Answer 15

Clare’s father was the spearhead of the campaign
He had campaigned and persisted for Change

Question 16

Driving force of Clare’s law

Answer 16

After Clare’s murder in 2009
She was strangled and set on fire but her boyfriend
Argued if she had have known she wouldn’t have been with him
Wanted people to have the right to know a partners history

Question 17

Campaign methods for Clare’s law

Answer 17

Came up with the idea of police disclosure scheme and took to government
4 years of organising
Appeared on TV and radio

Question 18

What was the policy introduced by Clare’s law?

Answer 18

Domestic violence disclosure scheme 2014
Gives right to ask and know

Question 19

How was Ann Ming’s double Jeopardy campaign an individual campaign?

Answer 19

Was spearheaded by Ann Ming
She campaigned to get the laws changed

Question 20

Driving force of Ann Ming’s double Jeopardy campaign

Answer 20

Julie Hogg was killed in 1989
After her murderer was found not guilty he confessed but couldn’t be charged
Wanted the double Jeopardy rule to change

Question 21

Campaign methods of Ann Ming’s double Jeopardy campaign

Answer 21

Newspapers and many politicians backed it
The northern echo backed her campaign

Question 22

What was the policy introduced by Ann Ming’s double Jeopardy campaign?

Answer 22

Criminal justice act 2003
Abolished double Jeopardy for 30 serious crimes

Question 23

What are the 2 newspaper campaigns?

Answer 23

Sarah’s law
Dangerous dogs act 1991

Question 24

How was Sarah’s law a newspaper campaign?

Answer 24

News of the world has backed the campaign and ran several front pages and pushed the petition

Question 25

Driving force of Sarah’s law

Answer 25

8-year-old Sarah had been abducted and murdered by a known sex offender
Due to lack of evidence he was not arrested till 2001
Believed parents had the right to know if there was a sex offender in their area

Question 26

Campaign methods of Sarah’s law

Answer 26

News of the world out pressure on government
Released 100 men on sex offenders registry and threatened to release 1000 more
Petition that got 700,000 signatures

Question 27

What was the policy introduced by Sarah’s law?

Answer 27

Child sex offender disclosure scheme
Allowed controlled access to the sex offender registry and could enquire about individuals

Question 28

How was the Dangerous dogs a newspaper campaign?

Answer 28

Several newspapers covered the story with pictures of a 6 year old girl in a hospital bed after a bog attack

Question 29

Driving force of the dangerous dogs

Answer 29

Series of dog attacks
6 year old was mauled by a pit bull terrier and taken to hospital

Question 30

Campaign methods of dangerous dogs

Answer 30

Newspapers covered the story
Graphic pictures of dog attacks were published of children causing moral panic putting pressure on MPs

Question 31

What was the policy introduced by Dangerous dogs?

Answer 31

Dangerous dogs act 1991
Banned 4 now 5 dogs
Made it an offence for the owner to allow the dog to act dangerously and out of control