H10 & H11

Question 1

Hartley Dean’s overview: 3 clear areas where criminology and social policy overlap

Answer 1

1. the issue of community safety and the importance to human wellbeing of physical security
2. the development of common theoretical understandings about the disciplinary affects of administrative processes and of prevailing shits in policy
3. social policy and criminology need to be studied together relates to the way that both criminal justice policy and crime itself tend to bear in often disproportionate ways upon the poorest and most vulnerable of society

Question 2

3 ways to understand social exclusion (Ruth Levitas)

Answer 2

1. RED = Redistributive discourse
2. MUD = moral underclass discourse
3. SID = social integrationist discourse

Question 3

redistributive discourse (RED)

Answer 3

arguments about social exclusion being related to the distribution of wealth —> to tackle social exclusion, better distribution of wealth is required through welfare policies

Question 4

moral underclass discourse (MUD)

Answer 4

social exclusion is about individuals/groups who are antisocial and culturally different

Question 5

social integrationist discourse (SID)

Answer 5

social exclusion is linked to lack of inclusion through absence of employment