Right Realist solutions to crime

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1. KEEP GOING....!!!!?!

  • Right realists argue prison lowers crime by taking criminals off streets, Tarling take 25% increase in prison pop to get 1% reduction in crime, Matthews = prison reduces individual's criminality, most grow out of crime&imprsionment
  • Left realists argue prison lowers crime by taking criminals off streets, Tarling take 25% increase in prison pop to get 1% reduction in crime, Matthews = prison reduces individual's criminality, most grow out of crime&imprsionment
  • Right realists argue prison lowers crime by taking criminals off streets, Tarling take 25% increase in prison pop to get 1% reduction in crime, Matthews = prison reduces individual's criminality, most grow into crime&imprsionment
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2. Does Wilson believe crime is rational and what to do about it?

  • Yes, if benefits outweigh costs then choose to commit crime, more police and harsher sentences only have litmited impact, Certain and quick penalties are effective, other measures as well
  • No,violent crimes arent thought out as due to drugs and alcohol, more police and harsher sentences only have litmited impact, Certain and quick penalties are effective, other measures as well
  • Yes, if benefits outweigh costs then choose to commit crime, more police and harsher sentences have massive impact, Certain and quick penalties are ineffective, other measures as well

3. What do all of their solutions emphaisise?

  • The individual, if people choose to commit crime because of the rewards outwigh the low costs, then we need to increase the costs of crime
  • Groups, if a group of people choose to commit deviance because of the rewards outwigh the low costs, then we need to increase the costs of crime
  • The police, if people choose to commit crime because of the rewards outwigh the low costs of police intervention, then we need to increase the costs of police intervention

4. What does Wilson believe about crime?

  • Not just due to poverty as 60's USA had major anti-poverty schemes but had increase in crime, many poor people (old&sick) dont commit crime so povety isnt only cause
  • Not due to poverty as 60's USA had major anti-poverty schemes but had increase in crime, many poor people (old&sick) dont commit crime so povety isnt cause
  • Due to poverty as 60's USA had major poverty and had increase in crime, few poor people (old&sick) dont commit crime so povety is cause

5. How else might SCP be evaluated?

  • Question the rational nature of street crime as most violent crime is due to drugs or alcohol, use of surveliance may be a problem as camera opperators hold same values as police officers so overfocus on young males - how police&courts see it
  • It has too much evidence so is suspicious
  • Question the irrational nature of street crime as most violent crime is due to choosing drugs or alcohol, use of surveliance maybe a problem as camera opperators hold same values as police officers so overfocus on young males-how police&courts see it

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