Similarities between poaching and computer crime. (7 marks)
When a question asks for similarities also state differences and vice versa.
Both poaching and computer crime are different in their nature. Poaching involves physical activity in the aim of hunting and killing animals and has been a crime committed for centuries.
Computer crime by comparison is the high tech theft or disabling of a system, a crime which is mainly committed by employed, wage earning white-collar workers. Both crimes are theft as poachers steal animals from others whilst computer crime mainly involves the re-routing of funds from someone else’s account into your own. The motive behind computer crime is not always clear, it might be that the employee has a grudge against his employer, or that the criminal has financial problems. In almost all cases the criminal is in work.
By comparison poaching is, and always has been done for similar reasons. Many poachers trap animals to sell on the black market - this practice has gone on for centuries and is different to computer crime as it was mainly done in organised gangs. The other motive for poaching is similar to the motive of a computer fraud and that is need. Restrictions on hunting, the loss of the common land and high rural unemployment are all causes of poaching in that many were left with no option other than to starve. In the twentieth century it is unlikely that a computer criminal does this because his family are faced with starvation. Computer crime is still committed on a small scale. By comparison poaching has become a more minor crime in the 20th century than it was in previous centuries. The penalties are different. Computer criminals face a term of imprisonment whereas poachers were usually given a fine.
When revising your crimes try to set out your revision like this :
This question could have been a comparison of any crime which we have studied. When you revise each crime draw up a list of the following points :
For answering the essays you will have
to choose ONE whole extension unit to answer out of THREE. Your paper will have
FOUR extension units however we will not have done Unit 1 - Ancient and Early
Middle Ages Crime and Punishments SO DON’T ANSWER IT !
Extension Unit 2 - Religious and Political Protest
· Demands for political
reform in the 19th and 20th centuries : Peterloo, Chartism : Suffragettes
This unit has a lot of similarities to the type of questions asked about
They asked about the tactics of the suffragettes :
· any publicity was good publicity - window breaking created destruction, marches and meetings were intended to get more people involved, hunger strikes showed how brutally and unfairly the women were treated in prison.
To answer this question well you have to look at the limitations of the Suffragettes, methodse.g. their militant tactics resulted in opposition even from people who had previously supported votes for women, look at the strength of the opposition (something which you should always look at in a question about the failure of a protest). To gain the top level marks you need to link these points together.
The suffragettes increasingly violent and militant activities disgusted and appalled many people. They caused the govt. to believe women were not responsible or intelligent enough to be able to make political decisions which would affect the whole country. The suffragettes also annoyed the public, and those who had originally supported the women’s suffrage movement turned against them. the political parties were also suspicious of how they would vote. The Conservatives believed that women would vote for Labour or the Liberals and the Liberals believed women would vote Conservative. Some politicians such as Asquith, the Liberal leader, were also against giving women the vote. Whilst such people were in power change in the voting system would be unlikely. The media, due to the suffragettes militant campaign were also unsupportive of the cause. Trade Unions at the time only looked after the best interests of men and so didn’t give any additional political pressure for change.
There was opposition in the govt. who didn’t want to give women the vote because they would make up 52% of the voting population and the MP’s felt that they would vote in a Govt purely on domestic issues. When the bill to allow women to vote was dropped the suffragettes went on the rampage through the city of London. The damage they created caused public outcry and so strengthened the Govts. supporters who agreed with their anti-suffrage policy.
Their militant tactics proved to the conservative,
traditional men that women were irresponsible and should not have the vote.
Any support they had in Parliament was from powerless radicals. In making the
Govt, look bad they lost any support from the more respectable MP’s and sections
of society and ended up backing up the attitudes of the men who labelled them
as irresponsible.