Right Realism
- Created by: SassQueen13
- Created on: 23-04-14 18:34
View mindmap
- Right Realism
- Solutions
- Welfare benefits
- Community benefits
- Financial incentives to get married (tax breaks)
- Wilson and Kelling's article 'Broken Windows' argues it is essential to maintain the orderly character of the neighbourhoods to prevent crime taking hold e.g. graffiti/vandalism is dealt with immediately
- 'Zero Tolerance' - Police towards prostitution, begging and drunkenness, the role of the Police is to control the streets so law abiding citizens can stay safe
- Crime prevention policies should reduce the rewards and incorporate costs to the offended. Punish the offenders more harshly to deter them from committing more crime
- Right Realism and Social Policy
- Situational Crime Prevention
- Felson gives an eg of a situational crime prevention strategy: The Port Authority Bus Terminal was poorly designed and provided opportunities for deviant conduct e.g. toilets were a setting for luggage thefts. They reshaped the physical environment to 'design crime out', reduced activity e.g. large sinks where homeless bathed were replaced by small hand basins
- Environmental Crime Prevention
- Wilson and Kelling's key idea is that disorder and the absence of control leads to crime. They use a two fold strategy.
- First and environmental improvement strategy; any broken windows must be repaired immediately otherwise more will follow and the neighbourhood will be on the slide
- Secondly, police must pro-actively tackle even the slightest sign of disorder instead of just reacting to it. This will halt neighbourhood decline and prevent serious crime taking root.
- Wilson and Kelling's key idea is that disorder and the absence of control leads to crime. They use a two fold strategy.
- Situational Crime Prevention
- Criticisms
- Focuses on opportunistic petty street crime and ignores white collar
- Assumes criminals make rational calculations which seems unlikely in crimes committed under influence of drugs/alcohol
- Ignores root causes of crime such as poverty or poor socialisation
- Displacement may occur: Spatial - moving elsewhere to commit crime, Temporal - committing at a different time, Target - choosing a different victim, Functional - committing a different type of crime
- Pos: Takes on a more realistic view of crime and deviance and comes up with pragmatic solutions
- Solutions
Comments
No comments have yet been made