Right Realist Explanations Of Crime And Devience

Question 1

Right Realist key beliefs

Answer 1

People ‘naturally’ inclined towards crime. (Biology increases offending)
Focus on ‘individuals cause crime’

Question 2

Types of criminals (RR)

Answer 2

Enemy within: welfare ‘scroungers’, young offenders and homosexuals.
Young men: way socialised has important effect on their behaviour. Constantly disciplined encourages following of norms values in developing social control.

Question 3

Wilson and Richard (RR)

Answer 3

Bio social theory of criminal behaviour:
Crime caused by combination of biological and social factors in an individual

Question 4

Bernstein and Murray (RR)

Answer 4

Chords of crime is low intelligence, which seen as being biologically determined

Question 5

Wilson and Kelling (RR)

Answer 5

Broken window theory:
People identify a building as derelict, so see it as okay to vandalise
Once communal barriers been broken down, deviance can happen anywhere e.g. 2011 London riots

Question 6

Hirschi (RR)

Answer 6

Social bond theory
No one immune from the Temptations of crime. What prevents us from committing crime are the strong social bonds we have with others, based on commitment, attachment, involvement,belief.

Question 7

Thatcher and Reagan (RR)

Answer 7

Linked to political and free market policies which seek to reduce the welfare state and put social responsibility on individuals