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Flashcards by Anisha Rai, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Anisha Rai
almost 6 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Stop and Search | Built on Conservative's 1984 Police and Crime Evidence Act (PACE) Influenced by enhanced terrorist threat Serious Organised Crime and Police Act (2005) |
| Police Reforms | Recruited officers at record levels - figure reached an all time high of 142'000 in 2009 Increase of 17'000 since 1997 Introduced 16'000 new community support officers |
| Police Reforms - Support | Increased focus on community policing = cross party support. Generally accepted and continued by Coalition after 2010 Overall crime fell by 35% (1997-2006) |
| Police Reforms - Criticism | Minority groups: enhanced police powers are used disproportionately against them - murder of Stephen Lawrence (1993) - Macpherson report (1999) said police force was institutionally racist Civil liberty concerns that Britain would develop into a 'police state' |
| Human Rights Act (1998) | Incorporate into UK law the rights contained in the ECHR Made in unlawful for any public body to act in a way which is incompatible with the convention |
| Human Rights Act - Criticism | 2007: David Cameron criticised the Act and proposed to replace it with a 'British Bill of Rights' Theresa May said she would rip up the HRA during her election campaign |
| ASBOs | Introduced Crime and Disorder Act (1998) 2004: 100'000 cases of anti-social behaviour, 2'633 ASBOs March 2006: 7'356 ASBOs |
| Crime and Disorder Act (1998) | Introduced: - ASBOs - Sex Offender Orders - Parenting Orders - Laws specific to 'racially aggravated offences' - More responsibilities to local authorities |
| Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act (2001) | Gave enhanced powers to government and security services Right to detain foreigners as terror suspects indefinitely |
| Criminal Justice Act (2004) | Detention without charge extended from 7 to 14 days |
| Prevention of Terrorism Act (2005) | Control orders & electronic tagging (SC rejected electronic tagging because goes agains liberal democracy) Repealed internment detaining suspects without trial - e.g. Abu Qatada couldn't be sent back to Jordan as they use evidence from torture |
| Terrorism Act (2006) | Introduced after 2005 London bombings Criminalised glorification of terrorism Doubled detention without charge to 28 days - Blair wanted 90/42 days but defected in HoC/L vote |
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