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6. Within Environmental Crime Prevention, it's argued that the police should tackle...

  • Vandalism by engaging in conflict with those who they suspect of being anti-social or criminal.
  • All types of crime, not just the most serious types.
  • Criminals who have a known history for committing crime.
  • Crime in London, rather than crime elsewhere.

7. Broken windows theory was argued by Wilson and who else?

  • Kelling
  • Murray
  • Clarke
  • Wilson

8. Wilson argued that trying to eradicate poverty won't...

  • Majorly reduce crime, as many poor don't commit so poverty isn't to blame.
  • Help the working class until 3 years after it has been eradicated.
  • Matter to the middle class, as they don't live in any areas affected by poverty.
  • Work, unless a considerable amount of money is spent on the inner city areas.

9. Rational choice theory is argued by which sociologist?

  • Clarke
  • Althusser
  • Murray
  • Parsons

10. People are born with a predisposition against crime and if parents don't teach children norms and values, they may commit crime - according to who?

  • Kelling
  • Clarke
  • Wilson & Hernstein
  • Wilson

11. A criticism of SCP is that it can create a new type of social inequality, as poor can't afford surveillance, so would be more vulnerable to crime. Who argues this?

  • Teleologists
  • Marxists
  • New Right
  • Functionalists

12. Murray argues that the rise of the underclass is caused by what?

  • Children spending too much time in education, as they don't gain a greater experience of reality.
  • The generosity of the welfare state.
  • Easy access to unhealthy fastfood chains.
  • The lack of female role models within a family.

13. Broken windows theory relates to a type of crime prevention known as Environmental Crime Prevention, where any anti-social behaviour must be prevented...

  • If the necessary fund are available to use, and if there is nothing else prioritised.
  • Within a two-week time scale
  • Immediately
  • If it gets worse