Social Justice Quiz/Learning Activity

What year did the Police and Criminal Evidence Act get passed? The law which introduced new protocols to measure the use of police power due to the unfair violence police were inflicting on Black and Asian groups in Britain.

1984

1975

1988

The police are not obliged to identify themselves before commencing a stop and search.

True

False

After a stop and search has been carried out the police are obliged to do what?

Write a record on the spot of the stop and search from beginning to end and they are to hand you a copy of the report

To detain you for further record checking until it is approved by a constable to dismiss you

Are you obligated to give your name in a stop and search?

Yes you are obligated. The police have the authority to demand the name of a suspect being stop and searched in compliance to their warrant.

No you are not obligated. The officer needs to state clearly why they have stopped you and what the person they suspect look like, you are then within your rights to choose whether or not you want to give your details.

What does every child Matters mean?

Every child has the right to education, health, safety clean environment and access to programs that help them advance.

Only ethnic minority children have the right to education, health, safety clean environment and access to programs that help them advance

Which scenario is a case of injustice?

Being criminalized due to the ethnicity of an individual

Being arrested for getting caught shoplifting

Does social justice go hand in hand with activism?

No. They are separate from one another

Yes. Advocating social justice is a form of activism

What year did the Sus Law get repealed and why was it a problem with various minority groups?

1981. It reinforced disparity of the police towards minorities with the abuse of their powers.

1989. It limited the amount of migration that could occur in Britain

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