crime - right realism Flashcards
What ideas do Right Realist support and reject?
support: conservative and new right outlook,
a zero tolerance stance
reject: the idea that structural factors like
poverty cause crime
What are the three Right Realism explanations of crime?
- Biological Differences
- Inadequate socialisation
- Rational Choice Theory
What are the three Right Realism solutions to reduce crime and deviance?
- Target Hardening
- Zero Tolerance Policing
- Broken Windows
Which sociologists argue the Biological Differences explanation of crime?
Wilson and Hernstein
Wilson and Hernstein argue which explanation of crime?
Biological Differences
What does the Biological Differences explanation argue?
That crimes is caused by a combination of biological and social factors
In the Biological Differences explanation, biological traits make people….?
Innately predisposed to crime e.g. heightened aggression or low IQ
In the Biological Differences explanation what are two examples of people being innately predisposed to crime?
Heightened aggression and low IQ
What is a real life study that can be used as an example for the Biological Differences explanation?
Banduras Bobo Doll study- boys showed higher aggression levels to the doll
What is an evaluation of the Biological Differences explanation?
It ignores wider social causes of crime, like unequal distribution of power and wealth
Which explanation of crime can be evaluated by saying it ignores wider social causes of crime, like unequal distribution of power and wealth?
Biological Differences
