Right realism and crime
- Created by: Harriet
- Created on: 06-06-13 11:19
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- Right Realism
- The Cause of Crime
- Biological differences
- Murray-the main cause of crime is low intelligence which is biological
- Wilson and Hernstein-biological differences in pesronality may make some people more predisposed to commit crime- eg. aggressiveness or risk taking
- The underclass
- Murray-The nuclear family is being undermined by the welfare state resulting in an underclass who fail to socialise their children properly
- Rational choice theory
- Clarke-Deciding to commit a crime is a choice based on a rational calculation of the consequences
- If the rewards outweigh the cost people will be more likely to offend
- Crime rates are high as perceived costs are low
- Clarke-Deciding to commit a crime is a choice based on a rational calculation of the consequences
- Biological differences
- Tackling Crime
- Wilson and Kelling- we must keep the character of neighbourhoods strong
- 'Zero tolerance' policing
- Increase the costs of crime through target hardening and more use of prisons
- Evaluation
- It overstates offenders rationality and how far they make cost-benefit calculations
- It only concentrates on street crime, ignoring corporate crime
- It ignores structural causes of crime such as poverty
- RR see crime especially street crime as a growing problem
- Believe other theories fail to solve the problem of crime. which should be done through control and punishment
- The Cause of Crime
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