2.3.2.10 - Right realism

• Right realism helped produced and shaped the governments research into crime
• Right realism offers a more practical approach to tackling crime than its mainly theoretical predecessors
• Right realism readily accepts crime statistics and therefore neglects white collar crime
• Right realism ignored wider cultural structural causes of crime such as poverty
• Right realism - specifically Murray's view on family decline - is supported by research from the Home Office that children from lone parent families are more likely to offend
• Right realism ignores the increasing gap between rich and poor which creates resentment