RIGHT REALIST THEORIES.
- Created by: KatieKwiecinska
- Created on: 03-12-15 10:34
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- Right Realism
- right realists say that people make a rationale choice to break the law.
- people aren't forced to break the law
- the role of the government isn't to eliminate the mythical root cause of crime such as poverty but to punish the criminal
- people aren't driven to crime through poverty like Merton would say
- zero tolerance polices
- JAMES Q WILSON. developed these policies based on the idea that if small crimes go unpunished they will lead to much larger crimes.
- all crime is as serious as eachother from dropping litter to murder.
- stop and search policies brought in with this.
- black young males are 27x more likely to be stopped and search from reasonable suspicion of the police.
- in the short term zero tolerance policies worked but the growing resentment for the police made it too difficult for the community to respect the police.
- these policies led to the Brixton riots.
- most sociologists state that the impact of zero tolerance policies can still be seen today as the lack of trust between the communities and the police is apparent.
- the broken window theory
- Wilson and Kelling said high levels of crime occur when informal social control has broken down as low level antisocial behaviour isn't stopped
- it is the analogy of a broken window; once one window has smashed the others are soon to follow
- if low level anti social behaviour isn't prevented then this does not escalate into more serious crimes
- crime prevention
- Clarke states that policies and police practices make it difficult to commit crime.
- neighbourhood watch
- people will commit crimes when the benefits outweigh the costs
- Newman introduced the 'defensible space' the designs of streets, houses and shopping centres should be safer
- this is called target hardening, the idea of improving security and safety
- evaluation of crime prevention
- garland argues that crime prevention limits the impact of crime and ignores the root cause of crime.
- crime prevention strategies leads to crime displacement where the crimes merely move to different areas.
- alongside crime prevention other actions must take place such as early interventions and programmes that involve the community
- Clarke states that policies and police practices make it difficult to commit crime.
- right realists say that people make a rationale choice to break the law.
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