AQA A2 Sociology- New Right and Crime
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- New Right and Crime
- Crime is a product of 3 reasons:
- Biological
- Wilson: personality make people more likely to commit crime (Low IQ, aggression etc)
- Murray: The main cause is IQ which he says is biologically determined.
- Evaluation: evidence that intelligence is biologically determined is limited- Lily- differences in intelligence accounted for 3% of the differences in offending.
- Underclass
- Murray: Generous welfare = dependency culture and a lack of male role models = delinquency.
- Crime rates increase because of the increase in the underclass and their deviant behaviour and parents inability to socialise their children
- Evaluation: Tham- studied UK and Sweden, found UK had lower benefit and higher crime rates than Sweden = crime is caused by high rate of inequality.
- Rational Choice Theory
- Clarke: Individuals are rational and they weigh up the costs and benefits of the crime before committing it.
- Right realists: today the costs of crimes is low and they are less likely to be caught = more crime
- Evaluation: How can criminals choice to commit crimes but also have their behaviour predetermined by biology.
- Biological
- Solutions
- Wilson: Broken Windows: must maintain neighborhoods to prevent crime.
- Zero Tolerance: crack down on minor crimes
- Reduce benefits of crime and increase costs.
- Evaluation
- Ignores structural causes (poverty)
- They overstate rationality which doesn't explain violent crime.
- Ignore White collar crime which can be more harmful to the public.
- Zero tolerence gives police free rein to discriminate
- Marxists: they don't see capitalism as a cause of crime.
- Crime is a product of 3 reasons:
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