Right and Left Realism

Question 1

What is Wilson and Kelling’s Broken Windows Theory. RIGHT

Answer 1

Signs of Disorder, leaving them broken or other signs of disorder not fixed, sends the message no one cares, absence of formal and informal control. Neighbourhood into spiral of decline, Respectable people move out and they are becoming a magnet of deviance (drug dealing, graffiti, vandalism, antisocial behaviour, petty theft, prostitution/ human trackefting, modern slavery)

Question 2

RR say is the causes of crime

Answer 2

Murray - underclass
Bio social
Broken Windows theory
Rational choice theory

Question 3

LR say is the causes of crime

Answer 3

Criminogenic triangle.
Relative deprivation, subcultures and political marginalisation

Question 4

RR- solutions of crime

Answer 4

Harsher punishments
Zero tolerance policies

Question 5

LR- solutions to crime

Answer 5

improve relationships between police and public, stop it before it starts