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How do CPS achieve social control
-Public Interests test uses public opinion
-By prosecuting crimes is stops other people doing the same, coercion an external form of social control
-Try to reduce recidivism by deciding to be less lenient towards repeat offenders
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How do police achieve social control?
seen as an external form of social control - the 'state in uniform'
- officers exercise their powers to police with the consent of the public
- they use environmental crime control techniques such as CCTV and gated lanes
- community policing is also used
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How do Judiciary achieve social control?
The judiciary helps to reinforce the norms and laws of our society by being responsible for directly applying written law objectively to criminal behaviour
they are also responsible for sentencing, such punishment acts as a deterrent and boundary maintena
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How do charities/pressure groups achieve social control?
- They identify outdated or inequal ways in which the current CJS is failing to uphold social order and apply pressure to help the CJS alter the way they work to ensure that social order and the laws of our society are maintained in an appropriate way.
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How do Prisons achieve social control?
Prisons act as an external form of social control as the fear of punishment acts as a deterrent as the conditions in prison are adverse. Informal social control occurs in prisons where the inmates themselves impose elements of hierarchy and behavioural re
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How do National Probation achieve social control
they dispense formal social control using coercive strategies (return to prison)
also encourage informal control and self control (internalising rules) while working with families, employers and offenders to change offending behaviour
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Contributions to agencies achieving social control
ASBO'S-58% of people breached their ASBO's
So they brought in civil injunctions to stop this-brerach of that resorts in detention
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Token Economies -Social Control
Obeying the rules

Interacting positively with staff and other inmates

Staying drug-free

Engaging in ‘purposeful activity’ such as vocational training or anger
management programmes
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Contributions to agencies achieving social control
ENVIRONMENTAL-
-Design
-Gated Lanes

BEHAVOURIAL-
-Token Economy
-ASBO's
GAPS IN STATE PREVENTION
-Cuts in Funding
staff cant do jobs
-Reoffending
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Contributions to agencies achieving social control
Offending, threatening or hurting someone

Preventing staff from performing their jobs

Escaping from prison

Using drugs or alcohol

Damaging the prison

Being in possession of forbidden items such as a knife

Being somewhere in the prison where you shou
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Examine Limitations of agencies achieving Social Control
-Repeat Offenders:cycle of inprisonment because nothing stopping them = 46% repeat: rises to 60% if sentence was 12 months or less
-Legal:basic rights protect people = Qatanda: innocent abroad although terrorist in UK
-No access to support:Moral Imperativ
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Evaluate the effectiveness of the agencies achieving social control
Are Effective-
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How do police achieve social control?

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seen as an external form of social control - the 'state in uniform'
- officers exercise their powers to police with the consent of the public
- they use environmental crime control techniques such as CCTV and gated lanes
- community policing is also used

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How do Judiciary achieve social control?

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How do charities/pressure groups achieve social control?

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How do Prisons achieve social control?

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