Right Realism
- Created by: rachel cantwell
- Created on: 26-02-14 12:33
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- Right Realism
- Key features
- 1. Value consensus and shared morality underpin society
- Social order is crucial and people should be able to live without fear of crime
- 2. People are naturally selfish
- People are essentially self-seeking and have a natural tendency to take short cuts and commit crime
- 3. Rational choice and oppertunity
- People are rational - they weigh up the costs against the benefits of any action they may take
- 4. Community control
- The most effective form of crime control is strenghtening the bond of community
- 5. Crime will always exist
- The greed and selfishness of some will always slip through the controls of society
- 1. Value consensus and shared morality underpin society
- Wilson (1985)
- Argues that attempts to tackle crime are pointless and the best solution is to lessen the impact of it on people's lives
- The Broken Windows thesis
- Wilson and Kelling (1982) suggest that unless incivilities are kept to a minimum there will be a gradual deterioration of neighbourhoods with growing anti social behaviour as a sense of 'anything goes' develops
- Evaluation
- Ignores white collar and corporate crime
- Suggests a strong police prescence will reduce crime
- Assumes offenders act rationally, but many are impulsive
- Doesn't address the wider structural causes of crime
- Recognises the importantance of community control and community response to crime in affecting crime levels
- Recognises that if minor problems such as anti social behaviour are ignored they could develop into more serious crime
- Addresses the immediate causes of crime and provides policies for reduction
- Key features
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