Discuss how campaigns affect policy making AC 4.3 Discuss how campaigns affect policy making

What are pressure groups? Pressure groups are organisations which campaign for changes in the law or new policies in areas such as crime. Pressure groups allow people the opportunity to participate in democracy by being involved in social change without necessarily joining a political party.

Pressure Group campaigns example Knifecrime .org campaigns for greater public awareness and for changes to the law http://www.knifecrimes.org/ They “recruit” politicians to be part of their campaign in order to influence policy

Example of pressure put on government to change the law on sentencing

One week later…. Knifecrime.org successfully managed to get the issue debated in a government committee…

Example 1 What was the Effect on policy? Read the article to answer the questions below: http://nakedeyeresearch.co.uk/featured-video/youth-and-knife-crime/ Go to the section “What is being done?” What police interventions resulted from the campaign? Were there any downsides to these interventions? How much money did the government pledge to 150 small groups? What theory is this approach linked to? What changes in legislation have resulted from the campaign? Why might this not work? What is the minimum term for a knife murder since 2009? (see source xii at the bottom of the page)

What does this say about how effective the law changes have been? How many people have been killed with a knife in London over the last two weeks? https://baronessj.com/2017/05/08/londons-knife-killing-epidemic-rages-on-with-another-teenager-stabbed-to-death-in-walthamstow/ What does this say about how effective the law changes have been?

Now research two more examples of pressure group anti-crime campaigns Fill out the information on your AC 4.3 Revision grid. Include the following information: Name of pressure group Effect on policy

Newspaper Campaigns Why are newspapers so helpful in promoting campaigns? Around 15 million papers bought every day (doesn’t include free papers) Online readership is greater (see following slide) What are the potential issues with having campaigns advertised in newspapers? https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/aug/04/childprotection

Newspaper readership Title Print (000s) Website only (000s) Combined (000s) The Sun/The Sun (Sunday) 12,400 1,076 13,476 Daily Mail/The Mail on Sunday 9,521 2,449 11,970 Metro 7,458 389 7,847 Daily Mirror/Sunday Mirror/The People 6,762 1,123 7,885 The Guardian/The Observer 2,781 2,475 5,257 The Daily Telegraph/The Sunday Telegraph 3,051 1,848 4,899 The Times/The Sunday Times 4,347 178 4,525 London Evening Standard 3,471 272 3,743 The Independent/The Independent on Sunday/i 2,607 1,056 3,662 Daily Express/Sunday Express 2,683 291 2,974 Daily Star/Daily Star Sunday 2,774 151 2,924

Does the media socially construct our opinions?

Do newspapers guide our behaviour?

Unit 1 AC2.1 Campaign comparison Chart Go back to your campaign comparison chart saved in your docs. For each campaign you have evaluated discuss whether it has been successful in affecting policies and how Internet Research: Use the link below to find other successful campaigns that have used newspapers http://www.westbournecoms.com/westbourne-100-newspaper/

Individual Campaigns Lillian’s Law – Which media types used? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2975573/Family-teenager-killed-drug-driver-speak-relief-years-campaigning-leads-change-law.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Sw9kWCQRUs

Individual Campaigns Research your own examples Use Claire’s Law and at least one other and note down: Media types used Evidence campaign was successful – did it change policy? Did it hit target audience? Other important factors from AC2.1 Unit 1 booklet