Left and Right Realism Exam Questions and Answers
relative deprivation - Answer-Lea and Young: how deprived someone feels in relation to others, compared to their own expectations, leads to feelings of resentment and committing crime to things they feel they are entitled to.
subculture - Answe...
relative deprivation - Answer-Lea and Young: how deprived someone feels in relation to
others, compared to their own expectations, leads to feelings of resentment and
committing crime to things they feel they are entitled to.
subculture - Answer-Cloward and Cohen: subculture is a group collective solution to
relative deprivation. some may turn to religion some may turn to crime
marginalisation - Answer-employed people have bodies to represent their views (such
as trade unions) de industrialisation means that there has been an increase in
unemployment, and these unemployed people have no body to represent them, so
express their frustration through criminal activity
relative deprivation A03 - Answer-not all people who are deprived commit crimes
subculture - Answer-assumes that concencus exists and that crime only occurs when
this breaks
marginalisation - Answer-doesn't explain coorperate crime, which according to Marxists
is more harmful
right realism 2 solutions to crime - Answer-situational crime prevention, environmental
crime prevention
situational crime prevention - Answer-what can be done in the situation to prevent
crime. target hardening= measures such as locking windows CCTV. designing out=
some areas are redesigned in order to make it impossible to commit associated crimes
(eg. sloping seats at bus shelters to eliminate sleeping on them)
situational crime prevention A03 - Answer-Newburn: obvious link between improved car
security measures and reduced car crime, but Garland: ignores factors such as
inequality
environmental crime prevention - Answer-based on Wilson and Kelleg's broken window
theory. formal and informal social control measures which emphasises the role of formal
control measures (the police). eg. zero tolerance policing, curfews, street drinking bans
environmental crime prevention A03 - Answer-Reiner: police would be better deployed
focused on more serious crime hot spots rather than clamping down on minor anti social
behaviour
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