Crime Policy
- Created by: brooke34
- Created on: 06-06-19 17:35
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- Crime Policy
- acts or laws put in place by gov to improve well being of society
- Theories..
- Functionalist - research will help inform policy makers
- Punishment uphold social solidarity and reinforces value consensus, public trial and punishment RET = cruel REST = repairs damage
- Left realist - research can uncover issues and eradicate policies
- More police, social and community prevention
- Marxist - main role is to criticise capitalist policies
- Maintains social order,WC criminalised, prisons make a lot of money for capitalism
- Feminist - agree that fem research can help women
- New Right - test current and propose new for individual responsibility
- Untitled
- Functionalist - research will help inform policy makers
- Policy intervention
- Ending Youth Crime - young criminals become career criminals, strengthening knife legislation and deterring gangs affiliation and early intervention crimes (ex-cons talking about life in prison)
- Substance Abuse - Illegal leisure drugs should be more liberal so don't steal for habit and recovery programmes
- Privation of Prisons - reforms in probation service which involve privately run sector - they overcharge the gov
- Situational Crime - reduce opps, target hardening based on rational choice theory
- assumes criminals take rational calculations and ignores root causes
- Environmental Crime - Broken Windows (Wilson and Kelling)
- Doesn't tackle root, focus on poor
- Social & Community Crime - emphasis on potentials, tackle the causes
- Give criminals victim status and Marxist says ignore influence of capitalism
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