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How Fair Are Our Police and Our Courts?

Authored by Neil Robertson

Social Studies

10th Grade

How Fair Are Our Police and Our Courts?
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Functionalists say the police’s essential role is to:

Maintain social order and give the public confidence that complaints are handled fairly

Represent minority interests against government policy

Focus only on serious violent crime

Protect big businesses from protestors

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Community policing chiefly involves officers:

Issuing instant fines for minor offences

Building relationships with local residents and gathering intelligence about problems

Using stop-and-search powers as often as possible

Staying in patrol cars to deter street crime

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Marxists argue the police concentrate their efforts on:

Cyber-fraud by multinational firms

Environmental offences committed by corporations

Working-class crimes such as vandalism and street theft

Elite tax evasion in offshore accounts

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The 1989 Hillsborough disaster is cited as evidence that the police can:

Lack resources for crowd control

Overuse community-policing tactics

Always accept blame for operational errors

Abuse power, make fatal mistakes and then scapegoat ordinary people

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Functionalists claim the principle of legal equality means courts:

Treat everyone the same in the eyes of the law, whatever their class, gender or ethnicity

Give lighter sentences to first-time offenders

Refuse to hear disputes over medical decisions

Base punishments only on public opinion polls

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

According to functionalists, courts discourage others from offending mainly by:

Naming and shaming offenders online

Imposing tough sentences that act as a deterrent

Offering offenders free legal aid

Encouraging jury members to meet victims

7.

DROPDOWN QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Marxists highlight class bias by noting that about (a)   of High Court judges attended Oxbridge.

30 per cent

50 per cent

75 per cent

95 per cent

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