Unit 12 Crime and Effect

BTEC LEVEL 3 (2)BTEC LEVEL 3 (2)
UNIT 12.UNIT 12.
CRIME AND ITS EFFECT ON SOCIETYCRIME AND ITS EFFECT ON SOCIETY

AimAim
To know crime and
disorder legislation,
sentences and orders
Working towards
assessments P1,M1,D1

LegislationLegislation
KEY TERMS:
Legislation – is the act of making or enacting laws
Sentence – is the punishment that is given to a person who
is found guilty by a criminal court
Offender – is a person who has committed a crime

Crime and disorder legislation
The Crime and Disorder Act of 1998 is a major piece of
legislation that has introduced both the public services and
society to a number of strategies designed to support
victims of crime, help agencies work together to fight crime
and ensure appropriate sentences and orders are issued to
offenders.
Q. Can you think of some of the reasons for the above ?

A.
Making communities safer for people to live in
Reducing the financial cost of crime to the taxpayer
Working as a team across the services to improve detection
rates.

Since the introduction of The Crime and Disorder Act 1998
a number of other pieces of legislation designed to
strengthen it have been introduced, their main focus being
to reduce crime and disorder.
Do you think this legislation needs to be amended and
updated ?
If so why ?

Crime and Disorder Act 1998
Police Reform Act 2002
Criminal Justice Act 2003
Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003

Crime and Disorder Act 1998 – Brief outline
Created 376 crime and disorder reduction partnerships
Local authorities, police etc. work together to develop and
implement strategies to reduce crime and disorder
Carry out audit every 3 years of Crime and disorder –
publish strategy with problems found – reflect local needs.
Covers – areas such as ASB, Sex offences, parenting
orders, child safety orders and racially aggravated
offences.
Who do you think make up the partnerships ?

 POLICE
 COMMUNITY SAFETY OFFICERS
 YOUTH OFFENDING TEAMS
 LOCAL AUTHORITIES
 HEALTH TRUSTS
 PROBATION SERVICES
 THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE AND
RESETLLEMENT OF OFFENDERS (NACRO)
 VICTIM SUPPORT
 EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS
 BUSINESSES
 HOUSING ASSOCIATIONS

ACTIVITY:
POLICE REFORM ACT 2002
Handout – in groups consider the main provisions within
this act. How do you think they impact on your local police
force?
Be prepared to share and discuss your findings

Key Terms
Anti-social behaviour – refers to a set of behaviours by
some people that have an adverse affect on other people in
society
Fixed penalty notice – refers to a notice issued for a minor
offence of a fixed amount of cash that must be paid or the
offender will be taken to court.
Community Order – are a range of punishments given to an
offender to serve the community
YOT – stands for Youth Offending Team

Activity – Criminal Justice Act
Research into the main provision of the act, particularly
looking at which cases a judge can sit alone to hear, and
the introduced exceptions to the double jeopardy rule.
A legal principle which prevents people being tried for the
same crime twice.
Julie Hogg
Find out in what circumstances a judge can try a case
without a jury and when the double jeopardy rule does not
apply.
Write down one reason for and one reason against this

SENTANCES AND ORDERS
Once an offender has been apprehended it is important to
understand the process they go through, what happens
when they go to court.
Courts are governed by their own guidelines and they must
ensure that the sentence they give is suitable for both the
crime and the offender.
Ensure consistency
Applies across country

SENTANCES AND ORDERS
The word ‘sentence’ has more than one meaning.
We are referring to ‘sentence’ as the final judgement of
guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is
imposed.

Sentencing for young offenders.
Sentences are designed to be supportive as well as a
punishment and therefore vary in style for young offenders.
What age is classed as a young offender ?
What is the main purpose of designing different sentences
for them?

Sentences and Orders
Child Curfew Scheme
Applies to unsupervised children under the age of 10
Prohibits them from being in specified public places
between 9pm and 6am
Police can remove children in breach of their curfew – home
or place of safety
Truancy Orders
Support young people back to education
Believed without intervention young people will re-offend

What if it fails ?..........
YOT will use other strategies as pre-court measures
Reprimand – formal warning given by police who admits
they are guilty of a minor offence – YOT works with
offender and take part in voluntary programme.
Final Warning – formal verbal warning given by police to
offender who admits guilt to first or second offence.
Young person assessed – cause determined – programme
of activities put together to address this
If it fails then dealt with by courts

Anti social behaviour measures (ASBO) – intended to
control nuisance elements in the community.
Generally last for a minimum of 2 years
Restrictions such as
Restricting access to a residential area
Not committing the same behaviour again
Not associating with certain people
Breaches in ASBO can result in 5 years in prison.

Other sentences
Financial – fines offender required to pay certain amount of
money to the court
Community – offender gives certain number of hours to
serving the community
Custodial – spending a period of time in prison
Restorative – gives victims the chance to tell offenders the
real impact of their crime – get answers to their questions-
to receive an apology – offender to understand the impact

Main sentences and orders that can be imposed by criminal
courts are :
Custodial
Fixed term
Intermittent custody
Suspended sentence
Community orders – prohibited activity requirement, unpaid
work requirements, curfew requirements, exclusion
requirement, supervision requirements.
Financial penalties
Restorative Justice
Anti social behaviour order
What are the purposes of these ?

Purpose of sentences
the punishment of offenders
the reduction of crime (including its reduction by
deterrence)
the reform and rehabilitation of offenders
the protection of the public
the making of reparation by offenders to persons affected
by their offences
Activity AS1
Assignment P2

AssignmentAssignment
P2
State the main sentences and orders criminal courts can
impose.
Produce a poster that states the main sentences and order
the criminal courts can impose

RUTH ELLIS
1.Who was Ruth Ellis
2.Give a brief account of her crime
3.What question did the prosecutor ask
4.What was the law at the time for murder
5.What was the public reaction
6.What day and date was she executed
7.What Act evolved from this case
8.What is your opinion of this

Effects of Criminal Behaviour on
Communities
P3
The study of crime is known as Crimenology and is drawn
from many other disciplines such as sociology, psychology,
biology, geography, law and anthropology.
Three main categories that are used to explain why crime
happens.
These are ………….

Theories of Crime
Biological – Linking crime to biological inheritance and
genes
Sociological – Linking crime to social pressures and society
Psychological – Linking crime to personality

Are we born Evil ?
Last week we looked at ……. And you were given questions
to answer about the documentary so lets see what you have
!

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Biological
Evidence suggests there are similarities in serial killers
Ritualistic and compulsive behaviour
Suicidal tendencies
History of serious assault
History of drug and alcohol abuse
Alcohol and drug abusing parents
Cruelty to animals
Unnatural liking for firearms
Emotional behaviour signs such as chronic depression or abuse
as a child.

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Theorists
Cesare Lombroso (1835 – 1901)
Looked at physical measurements of Italian prisoners and
non criminal military personnel. From this research he
argued that the physical shape of the head and face
determined them as being born criminal.
Do you agree with this?
Where are the faults ?

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Goring
In 1931 replicated this using compared physical
measurements of 3,000 English convicts and 3,000 non
convicts and nothing to support Lombroso evidence as his
evidence included people with learning severe learning
difficulties and ignored that fact that poverty could be the
cause of physical appearance rather than genetics.

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William Sheldon research in 1940 proposed that the general
body shape was the key determinant of personality and
behaviour.
He collected over 4,000 photographs of male students and
650 possible personality traits.
From this he was able to determine three basic body builds
Endomorph, Mesomorph and Ectomorph

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Based on these types Sheldon looked for correlations
including temperament and body shape and delinquency
and body shape.
His conclusion after 8 years was that the average
delinquent tended to be heavily mesomorphic and rarely
ectomorphic
Glueck and Glueck 1950 found mesomorphs were over
represented in a delinquent population of 500.
West and Farrington found no association between body
shape and delinquency.
More modern theories concentrate less on physical shape
and more on genetics

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Activity
Look at the photographs I have just handed out to you.
Decide in your group who is and who is not a killer
Now divide them into the following categories
Endomorph
Mesomorph
Ectomorph
Use the hand out guide to help you decide

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Genetic Determination – is the belief that it is the genes
alone that decide the physical features such as height, hair
colour, intelligence and so on.
The chromosomes are the cell structures that carry the
genetic material.
Normal females – two X chromosomes
Normal males – 1 X and 1 Y chromosomes
An extra Y chromosome has suggestions of influence on the
brain and may account for criminal behaviour.

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Biological Determination – similar to genetic but much wider
( and much more controversial) idea that all features of a
human being including behaviour are controlled by
biological factors.
This would mean that any influences form other people or
the environment are ignored. So, biological determinists
would say that the children of criminals are likely to be
criminals themselves.
In contrast the blank slate view treats a newborn baby as
blank slate with no innate characteristics.
What the baby learns and experiences as it grows decides
how it will turn out ………………………………….

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VIEW
FREE WILL
CRIMINALS ARE CRIMINALS
BECAUSE THEY CHOOSE TO BE
NATURE vs NURTURE

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Activity
Sonia and Nicky turn to crime

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Activity – Biological theories
Working in groups of three
Undertake some research into biological theories and the
work of Lombroso, Sheldon and others. As part of your
research find out more information about how their theories
describe criminal behaviour and the factors that contribute
to these theories. Produce a presentation on your findings
to share with the class.

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SOCIOLOGICAL
These focus on Society as the main cause of crime
The four main theories are as follows

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Key terms :
Determinism – is the theory that a person’s actions are
controlled by outside causes
Innate – means inborn or natural
Collective conscience – is the feeling of people in a group
of what is right and wrong, a group of people sharing the
same morals and values with similar views of deviant
behaviour
Labelling – is the process of giving people a ‘label’ based
on their behaviour. This can be both positive and negative
and can greatly influence how you are treated by others.

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Functionalism
Developed by Emile Durkheim (1858 – 1917) He was an
active social theorist.
One of the first people to analyse crime and deviance.
Many criminologists have built on his work to develop the
theory further.
He believed for society to exist and work effectively there
had to be a strong sense of social order.
Theory based around an agreed set of rules and values
within society that he called a ‘collective conscience’

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Marxism
Was born out of the work of Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)
His theory covered economics, politics and history but the
root of it was the idea of ‘class struggle’ referring to the
tendency of each class in society to jostle with all the other
classes in order to gain maximum advantage.
He saw crime as a product of society, each various class
would produce its own type and amount of crime.
Urban middle class and the urban working poor……
poor =crime = escape

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Labelling – Howard Becker (1928 onwards)
See crime as result of people labelling an act or a person
as criminal. In other words the act or criminal is not wrong
unless society says it is.
Acts are only criminal behaviour because society says so
Society’s reaction to the crime is more important than the
crime itself
Criminals are ordinary people who have simply received a
label
So being stigmatised with a label encourages a person to
see themselves as deviant and therefore behave
accordingly ?

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The Chicago School
Focuses on human behaviour as determined by social
structures and physical environmental factors rather than
genetic or personal characteristics.
Based around the idea that societies and individuals adapt
to circumstances in a similar way to biological evolution.
Theory centred on concepts such as the changing patterns
of crime in different zones of a city.
Socialisation = criminal activity
People are not born bad influenced by the people and
social situations and other external forces that surround

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Sociological determination is the belief that nurture (the
care and upbringing the child receives as he or she grows
up, and also the society they live in) = how the adult turns
out and the inherited factors are unimportant.
So crime is caused by society.
Three way debate
Biological determinism, sociological determinism and
experience of the individual.

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Psychological – examine the reasons why
Do not look from the perspective of society but concentrate
on the individual (mental state, how they have learned to be
a criminal and how raised (nurtured) by family.
There are many theories we will briefly examine two

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Psychoanalytical – Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939)
Humans all have natural urges desires which could develop
into criminal activity unless they are repressed.
As children we are socialised to supress these instinctive
impulses – by who ?
Human personality consists of three parts
The id
The ego
The super-ego

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The relationship between these three is key
The ego is the part of our personality that balances the
demands of the id with causing offence to the super-ego
Freud felt that crime occurred when a child was not
socialised effectively, resulting in a poorly developed ego
that lacks control over the id and leading to anti-social and
destructive behaviour.

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Key Terms
The id – is the demanding and child like side of a person,
which responds directly to instincts such as hunger, thirst
and the need for sexual gratification. The id does not
respond to social norms and values and according to Freud
is the part that must be repressed.
The ego – is the rational, logical part of us, governed by
reality. It is the part of the id that has been modified by the
world around us. It tries to satisfy the id in a socially
acceptable way.
The super-ego – is the moral part of our personality that
judges things as right or wrong, good or bad. Develops
around the age of 5 – what we call our conscience

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Social learning theory
Suggests an individual’s behaviour is learned and
maintained by rewards and punishments.
Crime is either learned (environment) or a failure of the
socialisation process which teaches children right from
wrong.
Crime is a learned behaviour that does not differ from any
other learning experience we have.
Theorists believe that deviant or criminal behaviour can be
reduced by taking away the reward value for behaviour and
replacing it with a punishment

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Casual Factors
Peer pressure
Drugs/alcohol
Education
Family Political and Socio-economic factors

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Activity – Biological, Sociological and Psychological
theories
Working in groups of three
Undertake some research into biological theories and the
work of Lombroso, Sheldon and others. As part of your
research find out more information about how their theories
describe criminal behaviour and the factors that contribute
to these theories. Produce a presentation on your findings
to share with the class.

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Assessment
P3 – Describe two theories of criminal behaviour and the
factors that contribute to them
Fact sheet.

EFFECTS OF CRIME ON COMMUNITIES AND
THE INDIVIDUAL
P4
DID YOU KNOW CRIME COSTS HOUSEHOLDS IN
ENGLAND AND WALES AN ESTIMATED £60 BILLION A
YEAR ?
WHO DOES IT EFFECT?
WHICH CRIME HAS THE MOST EFFECT ON THE
PUBLIC ?

EFFECTS OF CRIME ON COMMUNITIES AND THE
INDIVIDUAL
P4
ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR
ACTIVITY: Working in pairs make a list of crimes that you
think fall into the category of anti-social behaviour
Discussion:- have you seen these behaviours where you
live?
How do you think they impact on the public?
What about the social and financial costs?

INDIVIDUAL
P4
PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF CRIME.
From the list we have looked at the perception from the
public is that crime is everywhere and something we should
always fear, however, in most cases our fear of crime is
much higher than the likelihood of us actually being a victim
of crime.
The media – do you think they can present a distorted view
can you think of an example ?

INDIVIDUAL
P4
FEAR OF CRIME
REASONS:
High crime area
Already been a victim of crime
Poorly informed about policing in local area
Local environment is in a state of disrepair
Poor public transport
A study in 1995 (Hough) found between 1 and 2 percent of
people never go out at night as a result of being fearful of
crime.

INDIVIDUAL
P4
STATISTICS (SIMMONDS 2002 – 3)
5% OF PEOPLE CARRY WEAPONS
5% OF PEOPLE CARRY PERSONAL ATTACK ALARMS
30% OF PEOPLE USUALLY TRAVEL IN GROUPS FOR
SAFETY
40% OF PEOPLE AVOID WALKING NEAR PEIPLE WHO
THEY FEEL MIGHT BE A THREAT.

INDIVIDUAL
P4
COLLECTIVE COST OF CRIME
ANTICIPATION, CONSQUENCE,RESPONSE
PHYSICAL INJURY
PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACTS

INDIVIDUAL
P4
P4:- Describe the effects crime has on communities and the
individual
M2:- Analyse the effects crime has on communities and the
individual.
D2:- Evaluate a local public service initiative designed to
address crime and its impact on the community.

Starter activity
3 people are in a hostage situation 1 captor and 2
hostages. The police are called and all the information
they have is that the captor is called Isaac and the people
concerned are a doctor, a manager and a builder

The police burst into the room and immediately
incapacitate the manager. How did they know it was him
holding the other 2 hostage?

APPROACHES TO REDUCE CRIME, DISORDER
AND ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR
P5, M3
P5 – Identify approaches used by public services to reduce
crime, disorder and anti-social behaviour.
M3 – Analyse how the strategies used by local community
public services, work to reduce crime, disorder and anti-
social behaviour.

P5, M3
KEY TERMS :
INTELLIGENCE – is information about crimes and offenders
that the police and other authorities can use to reduce
crime
CRIME TRENDS – are increases or decreases in crime over
a period of time.
Initiative – means a new venture

P5, M3
Crime occurs in all areas of society.
Differs from region to region in its type, quantity and
severity
There is no part of society that is crime free
Important for strategies to be in place to reduce crime by
recording and categorising
Allows comparison and statistics to establish patterns.

P5, M3
Intelligence-led policing
NIM – The National Intelligence Model is a code of practice
governing the way police us intelligence.
Came into operation in January 2005 – overall aim – all
forces have same way of classifying and storing information
so it can be easily shared by other forces.
NIM – primarily used for allocating police resources, to plan
and work in co-operation with partnerships in the
community and to manage performance and risks.

P5, M3
Identification of crime trends.
Intelligence led policing is central to NIM strategy – WHY ?
Rise of the disturbing 'Sprouter' trend: Parents' fears over
Instagram accounts where young schoolgirls are urged to
post provocative pictures
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2772341/Help-
eventually-Police-fear-disturbing-new-sprouter-trend-sees-scantily-clad-
schoolgirls-posting-images-Instagram.html#ixzz3QPnLAntm

P5, M3
TARGETING OF PROLIFIC AND PRIORITY OFFENDERS
Police use surveillance, informants and intelligence to
detect repeat criminals – officers can then target those
offenders (intelligence)
Analysis – where and when crimes have occurred shows
that a small number of offenders are responsible for a large
number of crimes.
ILP (Intelligence led policing) effective way of catching
criminals in the act or preventing crime from happening.
What date do you think this became more significant on ?

P5, M3
Creating problem solving policing initiatives.
NIM crimes are classified into 3 levels.
Level 1 – local crime and anti-social behaviour – crime,
criminals and other problems affecting a basic command
unit or small force area.
Level 2 – regional criminal activity requiring additional
resources – affecting more than one basic command unit
and neighbouring forces or group of forces.
Level 3 – organised crime – national or international scale –
operation by dedicated units and preventative response on
a national basis.

P5, M3
ANPR – Automatic Number Plate Recognition – assists in
the arrest of road and vehicle criminals but also assists
detection of other crimes.

P5, M3
Activity – Cracking down on offenders with interception
intelligence.
Hand out
Working in pairs read the article
Give two reasons about how the technology is a good idea
and two reasons why it is a bad idea.
You have 10 minutes to complete this and then you will
share your opinions with the rest of the class.

P5, M3
Housing associations Police Community safety
officers
Business Youth
offending
teams
Education
establishment Organisations in partnership
to fight crime.
Victim support
National Associations Probation Health Local
For the care and service Trusts

P5, M3
Safer communities and multi-agency partnerships
Neighbourhood watch – what are the aims of NW ?

P5, M3
What are the aims of Neighbourhood Watch ?
Cut crime and the opportunities for crime and ASB
Provide reassurance to the local residents and reduce fear
of crime and ASB
Encourage neighbourliness and closer communities
Improve the quality of life for local residents
How does it do this ?

P5, M3
Neighbourhood Watch
It does this by
Being community based involving residents and tenants
who are working together
Working in partnership with the police, local authorities
and other agencies to reduce crime and disorder
Sharing information and advice with the police and other
agencies concerning crime and other incidents.

P5, M3
PCSO’s – Police community support officers
Employed directly the police
Compliment and support regular officers
Primary purpose to improve the community and offer
greater public reassurance
Work with a number of partner organisations to address
ASB, the fear of crime, environment issues and other
factors which affect the quality of peoples lives.

P5, M3
Community Wardens - Similar to PCSO’s but employed by
the council
Aim – to help the people within the local authority area to
live safely and independently in their neighbourhoods and
communities. They again provide a visible uniformed
presence to tackle ASB and are often a focal point for
communities.
Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships
Community safety partnerships
Third Sector partnerships
NACRO – National Association for the Care and
Resettlement of Offenders

P5, M3
NACRO – National Association for the Care and
Resettlement of Offenders
Primary Aims
Resettling ex-offenders and prisoners
Education and employment
Housing
Mental health issues
Youth crime
Race issues and the criminal justice system

P5, M3

P5, M3
Criminal Justice Agencies
Police – usually first on scene, as well as first agency to
make contact with the victim – first contact crucial in
collecting enough evidence to pursue a suspect – contain
Specialist family units
Officers trained to deal with – sexual crimes, crimes
involving children
Family liaison officers
Refer victims to other specialist agencies
Crime prevention
Wide variety of campaigns to reduce specific crime such
as drink driving.

P5, M3
Categories of prisoner
Category A prisoners are those whose escape would be
highly dangerous to the public or national security
Category B prisoners are those who don’t require maximum
security, but for whom escape needs to be made very
difficult
Category C prisoners are those who can’t be trusted in
open conditions but who are unlikely to try to escape
Category D prisoners are trusted enough to wander freely
within the prison but must show up for several daily roll
calls

P5, M3
COURTS

P5, M3
CROWN PROSECUTION SERVICE – CPS
KEY TERMS
Civil Law – is the area of British law that is concerned with
the private affairs of citizens, such as marriage and
property ownership
Criminal law – is the area of British law that deals with
crimes and their punishment.

P5, M3
CROWN PROSECUTION SERVICE – CPS – responsible for
prosecuting criminal cases investigated by the police in
England and Wales. Set up in 1985 to take over from the
police the job of prosecuting offenders.
1.Advise police on cases for possible prosecution
2.Reviewing cases ensure enough evidence
3.Decide on charges (if any) in all but minor cases
4.Prepare cases for court (making sure all evidence is
available and reliable)
5.Present the case in the Magistrates Court and instruct
council in the Crown Court.

P5, M3
CPS – what are the advantages to an independent
organisation taking charge of all the evidence that police
collect for and offence and then charging the person.
Prosecution based on two tests
Evidence Test
Public Interest Test
Do you know what they are ?
Do you agree with them ?

P5, M3
PROBATION SERVICE
Organisation designed to supervise offenders
90% male
70% will be supervised on a community sentence and the
remaining 30% imprisoned with a period of statutory licence
supervision in the community as an integral part of the
sentence.
Also assist magistrates and judges with their sentencing
decisions. Also contribute to decisions on early release.

P5, M3
Key Terms
Statutory licence supervision – is a legal document giving
official permission for the probation service to supervise
your movements
Post custody licence – is a legal document giving you
official permission to leave custody under strict guidelines
about re- offending.
Each year probation service deals with about 175,000
offenders.

P5, M3
Youth Offending Teams
YOTs exist with every local authority in England and Wales.
Made up of public service colleagues form wide range of
services including the police, probation, social, health,
education, drugs and alcohol misuse and housing.
This is so the team can draw on a wealth of knowledge and
experience in order to support young offenders.
Example – a young offender has a drug problem as part of
their sentence they will be required to undertake some kind
of drug rehabilitation programme – increases chance of not
re-offending.

P5, M3
How the public services support victims and witnesses of
crime.

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