Category: crime control
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Policing During the Pandemic… Right or Left Realist?
The UK Police Force have played a front-line role in enforcing government lockdown rules during the Coronavirus pandemic. Newspapers have tended to focus on the more dramatic incidents of police handing out strict penalty notices to those breaching lockdown rules. For example, this news item in the Sun from January 2021. However, sociology students need…
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How successful are early interventions in reducing violent crime?
Early interventions with young offenders (or with those deemed to be at risk of offending) are one of the preferred methods of controlling crime by Left Realists. Early interventions involve taking a multi-agency approach to give extra support and guidance to young offenders (or prospective offenders) involving the police, social services, education, employment and health…
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The deportations of foreign nationals – an example of a state crime?
The British government recently tried to deport 42 Jamaican nationals who had committed offences and in the United Kingdom and served more than 12 months in jail. However, a last minute human rights challenge in the Court of Appeal meant that only 17 were deported and 25 were taken off the plane, because for the…
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Does Prison Work? The Stats suggest not!
What can prison population statistics tell us about Crime Control in the UK? Is Prison an effective strategy for controlling crime? These are questions that should be of interest to any student studying the Crime and Deviance option within A-level sociology. Scotland, England and Wales have high prison populations In England and Wales we lock…
