Right wing policy

Question 1

What is Clarkes view on crime prevention ?

Answer 1

• Committing crime is a conscious choice
• Opportunities for crime are available
• Needs focus on how to make crime more difficult
  Believes in 2 approaches of crime prevention: situational and environmental

Question 2

What is situational crime prevention ?

Answer 2

• ‘target hardening’
• increasing the security of targets for crime
• E.g. CCTV and street lights

Question 3

What is environmental crime prevention ?

Answer 3

Wilson + Kelling - Makes deviance less likely in public places, designing crime out of the area - defensible space
Felson = Port authority bus terminal
Large basins gave the poor bathing areas (not actually meant to use them)
Dark terminal allowed for drug dealing and prostitution

Question 4

What do the right wing think about crime punishing ?

Answer 4

• right wing believed in retribution
• makes offenders pay and suffer
• punitive approach - revenge

Question 5

What do the right-wing say about control ?

Answer 5

1. Policing
   Zero-tolerance policing - aggressively policing of minor crimes should reduce more serious crime
2. Cutting dependence on the welfare state.
   Children should be adopted if parents can’t afford them - compulsory sterilisation
   Murray - generous welfare state encouraged ‘feckless’ behaviour

Question 6

What did Zimring say about zero-tolerance policing ?

Answer 6

NYC ‘clean car programme’
- zero tolerance approach to vandalism and graffiti on subway trains
- Later tackled fair dodging, begging and drug dealing
- Homicides dropped by 80%

Question 7

What are the evaluations for the right wing policy view ?

Answer 7

• doesn’t address the undermining causes of crime
• may result in displacement of crime
• Hudson = innocent being targeted not just the guilty by these policies
• issues with harsher punishments (death penalty)
• Reoffending much high for retribution than rehabilitation