Left and Right Realism Test Questions and Answers
What is the belief about late modernity, exclusion and crime? - Answer-- We are now living in a stage in society where instability, insecurity and exclusion make crime worse
- Deindustrialisation have caused unemployment especially for the young ...
Left and Right Realism Test Questions
and Answers
What is the belief about late modernity, exclusion and crime? - Answer-- We are now
living in a stage in society where instability, insecurity and exclusion make crime worse
- Deindustrialisation have caused unemployment especially for the young and ethnic
minority groups
- Increased inequality between rich and poor have increased relative deprivation and
economic exclusion
- This has made crime rise and is nastier e.g hate crime
How has Left Realism effected government policy? - Answer-- New Deal, New Labour
attempt to ensure employment for young people, stopping marginalisation, and
deprivation
- Anti Social Behaviour Order
- New Labour 'tough on causes of crime' ideas
How did Young evaluate Left Realist policies? - Answer-- Says that the New Deal is an
attempt to recreate the golden age of the 1950's and it did not lead to secure permenant
jobs
How is Left Realism evaluated ? - Answer-- Defines street crime as the problem in
society, not the harm of powerful groups on the poor
- Relative deprivation cannot explain crime as not all that experience it commit crime
- Focus on high crime inner city areas is disproportionate, making crime seem a bigger
issue than it is
What is the right realist view of crime? - Answer-- Street crime is a serious issue
destroying community cohesion
- Focus on practical solutions to control criminal activity, punishment
- Not interested in the causes of crime, stating that is too sympathetic to try and blame
society
e.g. Thatchers 'short, sharp, shock' approach to crime
What do right realists argue is the 3 causes of crime? - Answer-- Individual biological
differences
- Inadequate socialisation
- Rational choice
What are Wilson and Hernstein's biological differences? - Answer-- Crime is aa
combination of social and biological factors
- Some people are more biologically predisposed to commit more crime than others
- Main cause of crime is low intelligence which is biologically defined
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