right wing views

Question 1

right wing

Answer 1

individuals make bad choices and the state should not intervene only through strict social controls

Question 2

control theory - hirschi

Answer 2

attachment, commitment, involvement, belief
- individuals with strong networks, senses of morality will be unlikely to commit crimes

Question 3

murray

Answer 3

inadequate socialisation lead to yougn people developing an underclass dependant subculture
- blames generous welfare for lack of respect and responsibility

Question 4

murray evaluation - gallie 1994

Answer 4

most unemployed had strong work ethic and wanted to work
- no evidence of dependancy subculture
- those who experienced deprivation still had good morals

Question 5

murray evaluation - yougn 2003

Answer 5

those at the bottom of society are demonised as a problem and are the easy enemy

Question 6

right realism - wilson 1975

Answer 6

morals of society must be upheld, trends in crime accounted by 3 factors
- yougn males most likely to commit crime
- changes in the benefits and costs of crime at different times
- social and cultural changes might influence norms and values

Question 7

wilson and kelling 1982 - broken windows

Answer 7

• the car in run down area was vandalised quickly yet the other in a better area had not been touched
• experiment leader smashed one window in the better area and slowly the car was destroyed
  ‘untended behaviour’ leads to the breakdown of community controls

Question 8

wilson and herrnstein 1985

Answer 8

there is a biological element to criminal behaviour
- characteristics will be heightened if they lack proper socialisation
- criminal tendancies will be surpressed in a strong nuclear family