Prevention

Question 1

Left realist approach to control and prevention

Answer 1

• ‘tough on causes’
• Building community control and cohesion
• Parent support agencies
• Education

Question 2

Evaluations of left realism

Answer 2

• assumes all people are good and just need reminders

- policies may be impractical as they’re expensive

Question 3

Right realist approach to control and prevention

Answer 3

• Deterrence through harsh punishments
• Reduced opportunity
• Increased social control

Question 4

Evaluations of right realism

Answer 4

• 60% of criminals have mental disorders so rehabilitation may help rather than a sentence in prison
• Not all businesses can afford CCTV or security so risks creating a two tier system where only the rich are protected.

Question 5

Feminist approach to control and prevention

Answer 5

• Make forms of victimisation that have been ignored more visible. (Eg. domestic violence)
• Exposing the extent to which violence against women is not ‘stranger danger’ but known men in the home
• Improvements in the male dominated CJS

Question 6

Post modernist approach to to control and prevention

Answer 6

• Crime is a social construction so we need to recognise the diversity of social groups, identities and experiences.
• Police should be more sensitive of gender and ethnicity etc.
• Less centralisation of power and more private control

Question 7

Evaluations of postmodernism

Answer 7

• Draws attention to the diversity of lifestyle choices
• Pays little attention to social inequality
• Decentralization may have regressive effects. Middle class groups have the power.