Right realism

• Right Realism

  Right realist often blame the individuals themselves for their criminality. This includes inadequate socialisation, a culture of poverty,r atonal thought theories as well as biological reasons
• Biological differences

  Some people are naturally less intelligent or more aggressive than other. Hernstein and murray: the main cause f crime is low intelligence which is biologically determine
• biological differences

  Marxist: this argument is flawed becuase it ignored structural influences that causes us to commit crime
• socialisation and the underclass

  believe that through effective socialisation the rick of criminal behaviour can be controlled. Murray believes in an underclass of immoral and cultural deprived people have emerged who are the most common criminal
• socialisation and underclass criticism

  cohen folk devils when the media report on deviant behavior they construct a narrative which features a clear villain
• rational choice theory

  clarke- the decision to commit crimes is a choice based on rational calculation of the LiKelly consequences
• rational choice theory

  it ignores wider structural causes such as poverty
• broken window theory

  Wilson - highlights the snowball effect of allowing minor crimes go unpunished through his broken widow theory.
• broken window theory criticism

  the impact of the policy in New York appeared to be dramatic with crime levels falling rapidly