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Between December 2001 and November 2004, a series of opinion polls were run on RCP's website. Here are the results:
Results of previous
polls
October/November
2004
Should random drug tests be introduced for school children?
Yes
- 32%
No
- 51%
Don't
know -15%
August/September
2004
Should all unaccompanied under 16’s be banned from city centres at
night?
Yes
- 39%
No
- 42%
Don't
know -17%
June/July 2004
Should more use be made of electronic tagging as an alternative to short prison sentences?
Yes - 65%
No - 11%
Don't know -23%
April/May 2004
Should residential drug treatment be used more widely as an alternative to custody?
Yes - 77%
No - 6%
Don't know -16%
March 2004
Should sentenced prisoners be able to vote?
Yes
- 41%
No
- 41%
Don't
know -17%
January/February
2004
Do you support the merger of the Prison and Probation Services?
Yes
- 33%
No
- 22%
Don't
know -43%
December
2003
Should fines be used more for non-violent crimes?
Yes
- 62%
No
- 13%
Don't
know -23%
November 2003
Should women drug mules serve long prison sentences in the UK?
Yes - 26%
No - 42%
Don't know -30%
October 2003
Should beggars be sent to prison?
Yes - 10%
No - 76%
Don't know -13%
August/September 2003
Should offenders have more opportunities to apologise and pay back to victims?
Yes - 64%
No - 8%
Don't know -27%
July 2003
Do you support automatic 5 year prison terms for having a firearm?
Yes - 31%
No - 43%
Don't know -24%
March/June 2003
Should more young offenders be placed with foster parents?
Yes - 31%
No - 26%
Don't know -42%
January/February 2003
Should first time burglars always get a prison sentence?
Yes - 26%
No - 57%
Don't know -16%
November/December 2002
Should the Probation Service be funded on a much greater scale, as Lord Woolf has suggested?
Yes - 54%
No - 4%
Don't know -41%
September/October 2002
Should all offenders convicted of violent crimes automatically go to prison?
Yes - 41%
No - 43%
Don't know -14%
July/August 2002
Do you think weekend or night-time custody should be available for low risk offenders?
Yes - 73%
No - 10%
Don't know -16%
May/June 2002
Should prison be used for parents whose children don't go to school?
Yes - 26%
No - 67%
Don't know -6%
April 2002
Should judges have the flexibility to decide the sentence in murder cases instead of an automatic life sentence?
Yes - 76%
No - 13%
Don't know -10%
March 2002
Should more use be made of intensive community punishments which keep track of young offfenders and tackle their offending?
Yes - 95%
No - 0%
Don't know - 4%
February 2002
Should all mobile phone muggers be locked up regardless of age and previous record?
Yes - 17%
No -77%
Don't know - 5%
January 2002
More than 4000 women are in prison, mostly for non-violent offences. Should we find alternatives to prison for women?
Yes - 91%
No - 2%
Don't know - 5%
December 2001
Do you think people come out of prison worse than when they went in?
Yes - 75%
No - 12%
Don't know - 11%