Right realism

• Right Realism


  Linked to conservative government
• Causes of crime

  • Biological differences (e.g. low intelligence)
  • Inadequate socialisation (blame lone parents)
  • Individuals' rational choice to offend (they choose to be criminal)
• Right Realist solutions to crime

  • Increase social control
  • Harsher punishment/sentencing
  • Increased surveillance
  • Place more responsibility on the communities (people police themselves)
  • Need to tackle vandalism, litter etc quickly to keep crime in check
• Right Realism blames the poor for crime
• Right Realism ignores structural causes of crime (e.g. poverty and unemployment)
• Right Realism ignores crime committed by the more affluent (rich)