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Tag Archives: right realism
Why is Crime Increasing Again?
The latest crime figures show an increase in the overall number of crimes committed in England and Wales, for the year ending March 2018. The overall numbers of crimes have increased from approximately 5.8 million in 2016-17 to 6 million … Continue reading
Posted in Crime and Deviance
Tagged crime, criminology, left realism, right realism, Statistics
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Contemporary sociology: how should we tackle the increase in knife crime?
knife crime in London seems to be increasing rapidly, but how would left and right realists tackle this? Or is this all just a moral panic? Continue reading
Posted in Crime and Deviance, right and left realism
Tagged crime, left realsim, London, news, right realism, stop and search
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Zero Tolerance Policing – An Evaluation
A brief evaluation of Zero Tolerance Policing Zero Tolerance Policing involves the police strictly clamping down on minor criminal activities such as littering, begging, graffiti and other forms of antisocial behaviour. Clamping down might take the form of on the … Continue reading
Evaluating Broken Windows Theory
Broken Windows Theory suggests that high levels of physical disorder such as litter, graffiti, vandalism, or people engaged in Anti-Social Behaviour will result in higher crime rates. Broken Windows Theory is one aspect of the Right Realist approach to criminology … Continue reading
Posted in Crime and Deviance, right and left realism
Tagged crime, crime displacement, criminology, evaluation, right realism
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Why is Crime Falling?
According to both Police Recorded Crime and the Crime Survey of England and Wales, there has been a steady decrease in crime in England and Wales since 1995 – that’s over 20 years of crime reduction. There are several … Continue reading
Posted in Crime and Deviance
Tagged crime, falling crime, right realism, Routine Activities, Statistics, Theft
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Right Realist Criminology
By the end of the 1970s Marxist and Interactionist approaches to crime were beginning to lose their popularity in criminology. The basic problem was that these approaches weren’t that useful in actually helping to control or reduce crime – knowing … Continue reading
Environmental Crime Prevention – Definition, Examples and Evaluation
Environmental Crime Prevention strategies include formal and informal social control measures which try to clamp down on anti-social behaviour and prevent an area from deteriorating. They emphasises the role of formal control measures (the police) much more than situational crime … Continue reading
Posted in Crime and Deviance, Social Policies
Tagged ASBOs, crime, right realism, Zero Tolerance Policing
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The Underclass Theory of Crime
An American Sociologist Charles Murray (1989) first coined the term ‘the underclass’ to refer to that group of people in America who were long term unemployed and effectively welfare dependent. In the late 1980s he argued that the first generation … Continue reading
Posted in Crime and Deviance, right and left realism
Tagged crime, Murray, NEETs, right realism, underclass
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