Crime : AO3 Right Realism

• +Examines causes of crime and provides policies for reducing crime.
• +Recognises the importance of community control.
• +Recognises that minor deviance and petty crime destroy sense of community.
• -Interactionists argue that this is too simplistic, as it particularly ignores the often-complex meanings and motives for committing crime.
• -The social and economic origins of crime are forgotten.
• -Official statistics are assumed to be correct.
• -Policies introduced by the New Right government had little effect on the crime figures.
• -Ignores relative deprivation as a cause of crime.
• -Marxists criticise this theory as an attack on the disadvantaged in society.
• -Ignores white collar crime and corporate crime and ignores women in crime.