Realism

Question 1

New Right, underclass

Answer 1

Murray (1990)

Question 2

who founded right realism, broken windows theory

Answer 2

James Q Wilson (1982)

Question 3

who criticizes right realism for only looking at working class crime

Answer 3

Platt and Takagi (1977)

Question 4

who founded left realism

Answer 4

lea and young 1984

Question 5

who did the study into city zones and patterns of victimisation

Answer 5

shaw and mckay 1931

Question 6

are marixsts left or right

Answer 6

left

Question 7

are functionalists left or right

Answer 7

right

Question 8

what do leas ad young say the cause of crime is

Answer 8

relative deprivation, marginalisation and subcultures

Question 9

is the square of crime left or right realist

Answer 9

left realist

Question 10

what is the square of crime

Answer 10

it shows how the state, offender, society and victim are all linked

Question 11

7 evaluation points of left realism

Answer 11

+ the new labour government used left realist approaches between 1997 and 2010
+ they look at how crime affects the less powerful groups
x marxists say they ignore crimes of the powerful
x marxists say they ignore the real cause of crime- the capatalist system
x focus more on the victim than the offender
x they believe there are deviants and non deviants but mazda thinks everyone is a deviant
x doesn’t explain murder and rape well but does explain theft

Question 12

what do left realists say the solution to crime is

Answer 12

• reduce poverty and inequality
• increase benefits and minimum wage
• media and education
• create job opportunities
• youth clubs
• community based solutions
• cctv
• more ethnic moniority policeman so more representative
• community service
• community centres
• more community officers to build up a relationship

Question 13

what do right relaists say about crime

Answer 13

the small incivilities should be stopped through zero tolerence and harsh punishmnets so it doesn’t flourish

Question 14

what do right realists say causes crime

Answer 14

• lone parent families
• murray - poor social control and socialisation (bred to be criminals)
• clarke (1980 rational choice theory - the wc dont have much to lose)
• biological differences

Question 15

what are the right realist solutions to crime

Answer 15

-cctv
- spikes on fences, metal benches, electrobic tags
- neighbourhood policing
- zero tolerence policing
- harsher ounishmanets
usa 3 strikes
- more policing of areas
- involve the local community in dealing with incivilities

Question 16

evaluation of right realism

Answer 16

what + looks for solutions
x ignores causes such as poverty
x ignorres upper class crime
x zero tolerence gives the police freedom to discriminate against ethnic moorities, youth etc

Question 17

what do the new right believe to be the cause fo crime

Answer 17

family and social control

Question 18

what does dennis say (new right)

Answer 18

since the 1960s theres been a decline in nuclear and traditional families so socialisation is worse and people dont have a sense of community any more

Question 19

5 criticisms of new right

Answer 19

x scraton 2002 accuses dennis of using how own personal views
x suggest a nuclear family is best but ignore the dark side of the family
x ignores the impact of poverty
xblames indoviduals for crime when its societies fault too
x postmodernists say everythingis changing so you dont need to be married or a nuclear family to provide social control