Realism

Question 1

What outlooks do the right realists have?

Answer 1

The new right/neo liberal outlook, favouring ‘get touch’ sentences.

Question 2

What outlooks do the left realists have?

Answer 2

socialists and favour the different policies for reducing crime.

Question 3

what type of crime do right realists see as a growing issue?

Answer 3

Street crime, due to it destroying communities, undermining social cohesion and threatening societies work ethic.

Question 4

what are the three causes of crime according to Right realists?

Answer 4

1. Biological differences - being more predisposed to crime due to thing such as personality traits and intelligence.
2. Socialisation- ineffective socialisation increases chances of crime causing behaviour.
3. Rational choice theory - individuals have free will and so can decide to commit a crime out of their own choice.

Question 5

What is routine activity theory?

Answer 5

For a crime to occur there has to be: a motivated offender, a suitable target (like a victim or property), and absence of a capable guardian like formal control agencies such as the police.

Question 6

What are the right realists solutions to tackling crime?

Answer 6

1.Broken Windows theory
2. zero tolerance policies
3. target hardening

Question 7

Who do the left realists see as real victims of crime?

Answer 7

See the disadvantaged groups like the working class and ethnic minorities as the real victims

Question 8

What are the causes of crime according to left realists?

Answer 8

1. Relative deprivation- when a person feels deprived in relation to others leading to crimes being committed.
2. Subcultures- a groups collective response to the problem of relative deprivation
3. Marginalisation- a group that lacks clear goals and organisations to represent their interests.

Question 9

What is ‘late modernity, exclusion and crime?’

Answer 9

The idea that we are in an age of late modernity where instability, insecurity and exclusion have made the problem of crime far worse.