Control And Prevention: Right Solutions

Question 1

Charles Murray

Answer 1

Cause of crimes : an immoral and idle underclass which is unwilling to work and is too dependent on an over generous welfare state so suggests that members of the underclass need to be weaned off benefits and Murray advocates reducing benefits and introducing penalties which force people to look for jobs

Question 2

Cornish and Clarke

Answer 2

Benefits of crime outweigh the cost of crime so need situational crime prevention to reduce the opportunities for committing crime need to be reduced

1. Target hardening :potential victims need to design out crime from their lives with personal security
2. Greater surveillance :cctv and neighbourhood watch
3. Environmental management e.g public space needs to be made more defensible like car parks being made more secure

Question 3

Wilson and kelling : environmental crime prevention

Answer 3

Crime is caused by anti social behaviour such as vandalism, drug use, littering and physical harassment if these behaviours are allowed to continue it shows that the areas lack social control so any sign of environmental decline such as broken Windows should be tackled immediately + the police need to be more visible in their support of communities and should react with zero tolerance

Question 4

Shover

Answer 4

Argues that situational crime prevention is expensive and creates a new type of social inequality because poorer sections of society cannot afford to make themselves harder targets

Question 5

Evaluation : opportunistic

Answer 5

A lot of crime isn’t done by weighing up the costs and benefits and instead is committed by the young in an attempt to find excitement e.g gambling