crime and deviance right realism
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- Created on: 02-12-12 19:51
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- right realism and rational choice theory
- right realism
- origins from the work of Wilson (1985)
- argues that attempts to tackle the causes of crime are pointless and the best solution is to reduce its impact upon peoples lives
- key features
- 1. value consensus and shared mortality underpin society
- social order is crucial and individuals should be able to live their lives without fear of crime.
- 2. people are naturally selfish
- people are essentially self seeking and need to have their natural tendency to take short cuts by commiting crime
- 3. rational choice and opportunity
- people are rational and make choices over any course of action they take after weighing up the costs of doing so against the benefits gained.
- 4. community control
- most effective form of crime control is through strengthening the bond of community
- 5. crime will always exist
- there will always be some people whose natural selfishness and greed will slip through other controls.
- 1. value consensus and shared mortality underpin society
- origins from the work of Wilson (1985)
- the broken windows thesis
- wilson and kelling (1982) suggest that unless what authors call incivilities, are kept to a minimum then there will be gradual deterioration of neighbourhoods with growing anti social behaviour and growing crime rates as a sense of anything goes develops
- criticism: lacks investment not incivilities that causes neighbourhoods to decline, little evidence that tolerance of incivilities leads to crime
- evaluation
- it adresses the immediate causes of crimes and provides policies or reducing crime
- recognizes that if minor problems like anti social behaviour arnt nipped in the bud they may grow into more serious crime
- recognizes the importance of community control and community responses to crime in affecting crime levels
- doesent address the wider structural causes of crime
- suggests strong police presence will prevent crime
- dosent pay attention to white collar and corporate crime
- assumes offenders act rationally, but some are impulsive
- right realism
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