Left and Right Realist crime polices
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- Left and Right realist crime prevention policies.
- Right Realist
- ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME PREVENTION
- Wilso and kelling - messy environmentsshow that no one cares.
- Design out crime by altering the enviroment.
- Encourages the community to take responsibility.
- This makes the people feel safe - also CCTV helped the James Bulger case.
- Farrington and West - 43% reduction in stoke on Trent.
- Displacementrather than elimination.
- Invasion of privacy
- Extension of the maple gaze (fems)
- ZERO TOLERANCEPOLICING
- The police seek out crime, rather than waiting to be called.
- Clamping down quickly and swiftly on the smallest of criminal behaviour.
- More military style of policing
- Alienates and marginalises.
- NY in the 1990's - crime down 50%
- Tony Blair also adapted this in the 2000's.
- Crime was falling across the US where there was other policing styles.
- SITUATION CRIME PREVENTION
- Increases the risk, reduces the rewards.
- CCTV, alarms, mosquito buzz, locks ...
- Reduces the opportunity to commit crime.
- Displacement- spatial, temporal, target, tactical or functional
- Has been effective - less theft from phone boxes with steel boxes.
- Emphasises the victims responsibility.
- PUNISHMENT
- Punishment can be expressive or instrumental.
- Punishment serves a positive purpose.
- Retribution deterant rehabilitation incapacitation
- Interactionist labelling theory.
- Wilson - the most important thing about punishment is that it is certain.
- 75% of the prison population is W-C.
- ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME PREVENTION
- Left Realist
- CONSENSUS POLICING
- By responding to community requests, a relationship can be built.
- Islington CS 1984 shows ZT policing has a - impact.
- Police shouldn't over or under police anything.
- Councils, social services, schools and the public should be involved.
- 2012 police commissioners elected, and ensure the police reflect the community.
- Gives the community a voice.
- Officers may not be taken as seriously.
- Skogan research suggests this style of policing can be good.
- SOCIAL CRIME PREVENTION
- Examples include the sure start programme.
- Tackle the cause of crime (inequality and poverty)
- Raise living standards, reduce unemployment, improve education.
- Programmes and minimum wage appear to help disadvantaged groups.
- The success of these schemes are hard to measure.
- Often criticised for being a waste of money.
- PUNISHMENT
- Want to focus on rehabilitationand restoration.
- Use Braithwaites ideas to show that prison doesn't work.
- Negative effects on ID and opportunities- reoffending is 70%.
- Accepts the OCS
- 75% of the prison population is W-C.
- Accepts the OCS
- Restorative Justice encourages acceptance or responsibility
- Focuses on low level crime.
- Examples include the make good scheme.
- CONSENSUS POLICING
- Right Realist
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