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Topic 4- Right Realism - Coggle Diagram
Topic 4- Right Realism
The cause of crime
Right realists reject the idea put forward by Marxists and other structural or economic factors such as poverty is the cause of crime. For right realists, crime is the product of 3 factors biological differences, inadequate socialisation and RCT.
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Rational Choice theory
RCT assumes that individuals have free will ad the power of reason. Clarke argues that the decision to commit a crime is a choice based on rational calculations of the likely consequences. If perceived rewards outweigh the consequences then people are more likely to offend.
Right realists argue that the perceived costs. There is often little risk of being caught and punishments are in any case linient.
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Tackling Crime
Right realists don't believe you should try to deal with the cause of crime such as biological as since these cant be easily changed. Instead they seek practical measures to make crime less attractive. Their main focus in on control, containment and punishment of offenders rather than rehabilitation.
Crime prevention policies should therefore reduce the rewards and increase the cost of crime to the offender eg by target handling and greater uses of prisons maximise the deterrent effect
Zero Tolerance
Wilson and Kelling: advocate a zero tolerance policy towards undesirable behaviour such as prostitution, begging and drunkenness. The police should focus on controlling the street so that law abiding citizens feel safe.
Jock and Young: argues that its success was a myth peddled by politicians and police keen to take the credit for falling crime. In fact the crime rate in new york has already been falling 9 years before showing how it wasnt the policy.
Young argues that police need arrests to justify their existence and new York's shortage of serious crime led police there to define deviance up meaning they took to arresting people for minor deviant acts that had previously fallen outside their net
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