Crime and Law in Context

This report discusses the influence of media on crime perception, government measures to address knife crime, and the effectiveness of criminal punishment and prison reform over 50 years. It explores the impact on young people and the challenges faced by the prison system. Find comprehensive study material on crime and law at Desklib.

Crime and Law in Context

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
The media controls people perception of crime and victims of sexual offences.........................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
How government is tackling the knife crime in present scenario................................................6
The impact of above statement on young people in modern time...............................................7
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7
The effectiveness of criminal punishment and prison reform over 50 years...............................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Criminal law is the body of law proscribe the conducting of perceived action such as
threatening, endangering to property, health, safety and moral welfare of the people. Crime is the
situation when someone breaks the law such as the as robbery, murder, drunk driving, speeding,
rape, just to name a few, but the list goes on. So, to have better control law are rules upheld by
court, police and law agencies.
In this report, there will be discussion on the controlling of media the perception and victim
of sexual offences and how the government is tackling the knife crime in present scenario. In
addition, effectiveness of criminal punishment prison reform will be evaluated over 50 years.
TASK 1
The media control people’s perceptions of crime and victim of sexual offences.
Mass media and individual has the curious level of obsession crime as the libraries &
bookstore for the crime fiction and nonfiction books. In addition to that’s the newspaper is
devoting almost 30% of coverage to different crime happening all around the world. On the
other hand, some of group have accused the above statements stating as there it is dangerous to
have presenting the view of distorted crimes both in time of secession of different new crime
stories dependence in term of new worthiness and over-representation in exaggeration crimes.
As the result, it an increase the risk of individuals in victims.
The media have significant in term of settlement agenda in crime and deviance with
influence the different issues that proper have thought about it. The mass media is not successful
is delivering every single event of crime but the different media personal is considered to be
selective over the happening which is needed to ignored or to be viewed. As the result, audience
is only able to discuss on the topic which have been properly delivered to them and form differs
opinion and deviances. The result continued to be as proper perception over crim and deviance
in the respective society have been influenced by media personnel decision making in perform
news in different media such as newspapers, television programmes, films or websites. Hence, it
can be stated as media representation is over whelming people believe in different crimes
regardless their impression is worth or not.
As to have discussion on statistic, approximately around 81 % of audience have to daily
media for the new coverages which have extended media coverage especially for the online new
broadcastings which have made possible to travel news in least time to maximum audience.
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There is need for the people to understand that the incident of cries happening around have
formation of different opinion before the official’s data released by governance authorities.
However, it can be states as our perception of crime have been related as the psychologist have
usage of term “Backfire effect” which have concluding human tendency to rate familiar
statements. audience regularly listen to crime report for the new organizations have become
more familiar and accepted. There is natural level of fear in crime is frequent and rising which is
leading to have drawing different conclusion.
The purpose of the media is to have the raise awareness among media professionals and
speaks to be true as unfamiliar ones. As per the study is accomplishes by the group criminal
justice professors has focussed in the devotee coverage of the “individual looking out in criminal
events which involve typical victims and offenders of violence.” As people are hearing incident
for multiple time, probably for 1month will lead to he dipropionates and inaccurate view of
accrual crime rates within the city. There is area which have include the risk factor in term
victimization, underlying crime police/community efforts to reduce crime.
The news event has been turning out to be drastic and dramatic as the single rape have for
local newspaper. The serial rapist will be turning out to be national story for example the
Yorkshire ripper. Hence the crime has turned out to be newsworthy as it is been presented as
serious, random and unpredictable enough as the panic issue have occurred of becoming the
victim by oneself. As for example - the ‘war on terror’ meant to felt by many people at initial
person in UK at risk. Events such as violent ones are to be accompanied film, CCTV footages or
mobile one as they are nebulising media to provide the visual and dramatic impact footage
audience. It has been found that the new media tends to exaggerates the extent of violent crimes
seeking out the newsworthy stories of crime and desinence in order to have exploitation of
possibilities in way of dramatizing, exaggerating, over-reporting and sensationalising in
proportion to generate audience interest and attract readers.
Most of the crime are fairly routine, trial and non-dramatic of picked up from serious and
violent offences in sexual assault, murder or armed robbery. The media have restructuring
dramatic the routine feature programmes providing the false and misleading impression on the
real extents. Such crime representation has created tend of the distorted perception of crim
among the majority of the public, exaggerating threat and unnecessary increase in fear crime.
The result continued to be as proper perception over crim and deviance in the respective society
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have been influenced by media personnel decision making in perform news such as newspapers,
television programmes, films or websites.
Hence, it can be concluded as the diverse range of the media report an interpretation have
different opinions to take the reaction of publicly. Audience is much more into the sparse media
interpretation for defining different existing issues and way of developing the moral panic.
TASK 2
How government is tackling the knife crime in present scenario.
As per the last year statics it can be stated as there were 209 knife related fatalities in the
England and wales has been rescored as highest in 1946. In addition to that’s there have been
over 20 fatalities form stabbing in London this year as real people ad real famsialies have been
shattered. As to handle the knife crime in UK, government have taken certain level of imitative
such as-
As per the factsheet updates on 3 April 2020
 The government are recruitment 20000 new police officers in time next 3 years.
 There is additional up to 6000 additional officers have been allocated in the first wave by
sharing in the 43 territorial police officers the amount funding will be increase more than
£1.1 billion, totalling £15.2 billion.
 The government have provided the power of stop and search where is expecting the
violence can take place.
 The National County Lines Co-ordination Centre works as safeguard 3,000 vulnerable
people to than 2,500 arrests over a year ago.
 The government is investing al about the £25 million to tackling county lines which will
have increase expansion of National County Lines Co-ordination Centre, disruption on
rail networks by British transport police, investing on new technologies such as the
automatic number plate reorganization along with supporting the victims.
On the other hand, it has argued that’s the power of stop and search have been frequently
misused by the police officers targeting the black people, undermining community relations and
optimality ineffective in reducing the rate of crime. In the state of Scotland, thy have accepted
the radical approach by reframing this problem. Change have been prospering to law for
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governing the offensive weapons and community-based approach to be induce to provide the
positive alternatives for young people at the maximum risk.
The impact of above statement on young people in modern time.
Across the England wale have 26% increase in the knife crime for young people as stabbing
clearly leads to death for the last 8 years. This have been recognized as the growing problem of
the urban’s violence under the banner of gun and knife crime, post code wars ad gangs relate
street crime. This problem has been turned out to be the health risk which leads to problematise
behaviour for everyone. The behaviour has been aggravated by poverty, inequality, school
exclusions, mental illness and chaotic family circumstances. children were considered to be
afraid for society as they have compounded seen and hear about the different victim crimes.
The young people have the feeling as social media & low levels between police seem to common
explanations the welfare & falling rates with successful police investigation. Such crime
representation has created tend of the distorted perception of crime among the majority of the
public, exaggerating the threat and unnecessary increase of the public crime fear in the young
people.
They considered as there is lack of potentials among police officers to protect from such
people. The young shoal tuned don have the aide how they protect themselves. On the other
hand, the young people have also the major ingoing in youth crimes as thy feel not to have
enough school to support them and not nay level of educations. So, the temporality of
permanently have involved them into the rouble without any wishes.
TASK 3
The effectiveness of criminal punishment and prison reform over 50 years.
Prisoner are the most unsuccessful institution in order to carry out the actuals prosper if the
ultimately retabulating the covet with eventually tuning out to be law abiding citizen and
productive evener of society. The end of the 19 the century has been marked as the transition
towards be modern penal policy Victoria prison system have reformed. As per the reformation, it
has been considered as the prisons were not established for punishments but also need to be
considered as needs and benefits of rehabilitation. The reform of the prison are to be coincided as
the growth in thrushes s in 1908 population is 22000 that haven’t exceed till 1952. but after that’s
there have been emersed to 49000 by 1980.
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Next to that’s there have been the marginal reduction by the time of 1990 but in 1993 the
number of prisoners has been doubled. As per the events states it can b sated as there are 155
prisoners for every 100000 people which can be state as seven tis of the one in 1940. This
dramatic rise in the prisoner for the early 1990 have be occurred despite the increase in the
number of convicts in the courts. As per the change in 1993, the court have allowed to take into
the account of previous convictions at the time of sentencing offenders, automate life sentence
for any level of sexual differences and violent offices. There have been increased in there short
custodial sentencing for ‘anti-social crimes’ having the exploitation of trends.
On the other hand, as per the political term, it have tuned out to difficult for the
government in order to take action for reduction of the number of inmates at severe pressure of
incapacity as early the realise scheming ha ran out in years 2007-10.
The government have planned changes to the sentencing by adding the pressure to the
overcrowded an overstated prisoner’s whiteout reducing the crime or improving the public
confidence. As per the latest edition he Bromley Briefing Prison Fact file reveals that there have
been the sever level of impression on the political and media coverages as states of England and
wale are trueing out to tough for the approach of punishing as per serious level of crises over the
last few deed. It is important to have note that’s their racial level of disparities an b level of
midsummer arrest to execution. As there have Benn tough ties as their belief that’s black and
brown can be turning out instil guilty and dangerous which is driving the excessive senescing
policy. Using prisons deal with poverty & mental illness makes problems worse. People leave
overcrowded & violent jails traumatized, mentally ill, and physically battered.
Writing in the report, it has been stated as the specially commixed section on life sentence
have been drastically increase as the number of people serving sentences have been considered
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as exceptional in term of severity. In the 2019 September, almost 1900 prisoner had the tariff of
over 20 years. In addition to that’s the almost 880 people have inclusion of traffic more than 25
years and 291 people is tasking the over 20 years. On the other hand, the exclusion of the states
as serving people is the most state extremes punishments as tew hoe life tariff which is unlikely
to be realise. There are the clear suggestion as causing the recent growth I the use of long death
or life imprisonments sentences changes in legislation. This have been done in year 2003
criminal justice acts and subsequent amendments which have significant increase in the
minimum sentences for the range of murder.
There has been no clear evidence of growing number of people in long sentences which make
the convict overcrowded for the foreseeable future. Regards to have less level of changes in the
sentence practicing for the less serios offering or improvements in the reconviction of rates. there
is need to have establishments of the changes in sentencing practice for less serious offending or
improvements in reconviction rates.
The prison in UK are facing the unpresented challenges with the condition which is
determine the justice system as whose consensuses are considered blight in our communities
rather than hassling out to thrive to better place. England and wales are already having the
highest number of imprisonments over tasking 140 people for every 100,000 of population. in
addition to the pressure on the prisoner have set the worsen situation as to seek the introduction
of punitive reforms by proposing the sentencing bill. The government have commitments taking
10000 additional prion places in to meet rising demand government failure on prison building
promises.
By the way of censing the prison system have the working with progress make the proper level
of focus on the term of rehabilitation. There is not need fit reduction of crimes but aloes the save
million in tax dollar per years. This is helping out increasing e positive contribution mesmerising
the society ultimate making the world better place.by changing the way of working of prison
system should make the proper level of focus on each rehabilitation as darkness cannot be drive
out darkens by the light an make this happens. So, hate cannot drive hats but only love can
perform that’s.
CONCLUSION
From the above file it can be concluded as Crime is the situation as robbery, murder, drunk
driving, speeding, rape, just to name a few, but the list goes on. The media have significant role
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in setting agenda in relation of crime and deviance as creating the influence over the different
issues that proper have thought about it. There is natural level of fear in crime is frequent and
rising which is leading to have drawing different conclusion. There is area which have include
the risk factor such as for victimization, crime, trends and police/community efforts to reduce
crime. The result continued to be as proper perception over crim and deviance in the respective
society have been influenced by media personnel decision making in perform news in different
media such as newspapers, television programmes, films or websites. The account of previous
convictions at the time of sentencing offenders, automate life sentence for any level of sexual
differences and violent offices.
black and brown can be turning out instil guilty and dangerous which is driving the excessive
senescing policy to deal with poverty & mental illness problems worse. People leave
overcrowded & violent jails mentally ill and physically.
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