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Cards (14)

  • RIGHT REALIST PREVENTION 

    Murray believed that strong social bonds prevent deviance
  • RIGHT REALIST PREVENTION 

    ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME PREVENTION
    1. Parents responsibility
    2. Neighbourhood watch schemes
    3. Removing anti-social behaviour
    4. Supervision of offenders
    5. Adapting zero-tolerance policy
    6. Heavier policing and more arrests
    7. Fast track punishment
  • RIGHT REALIST PREVENTION 

    BROKEN WINDOWS THEORY
    1989 Operation Enforcement cleaned the underground
  • RIGHT REALIST PREVENTION 

    BROKEN WINDOWS THEORY - Lack of care suggests that deviant norms are tolerated
  • RIGHT REALIST PREVENTION 

    ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY LIMITATIONS - Uses a lot of resources and is very expensive. They could use the money on more serious crimes
  • RIGHT REALIST PREVENTION 

    Focuses on control, containment and punishment by using policies to reduce risk and reward and increase costs of crime by using it as a deterrent
  • RIGHT REALIST PREVENTION 

    LIMITATIONS - Ignores white collar crime
    Ignores impulsive crime
    Prioritises punishment and deterrents over the root cause of crime
    Does not address social and economic factors of crime
  • LEFT REALIST PREVENTION 

    COMMUNITY BASED APPROACHED - Young and Matthews (1992)
  • LEFT REALIST PREVENTION

    COMMUNITY BASED APPROACHED
    • Improving leisure facilities for young
    • Reducing income inequalities
    • Raising living standards of poorer families
    • Reducing unemployment and creating more jobs with better prospects
  • LEFT REALIST PREVENTION

    SOCIAL CRIME RPEVENTION
    1. Formal social control - Police, government make laws to deter people from committing crime
    2. Informal social control - Agencies stop us from committing crime
    3. Offenders - Understanding their motivations and whether or not they feel marginalised may prevent future crimes
    4. Victims - How likely people are to become victims and how to decrease that likelihood
  • LEFT REALIST PREVENTION

    LIMITATIONS:
    • They are too soft on crime
    • Does not consider how most people living in deprived areas do not turn to crime
    • Ignores white collar and co-operate crime
    • Neighbourhood policing may be seen as extensive control
  • FUNCTIONALIST PUNISHMENT 

    Retributive Justice - When an offender commits a crime, they should be punished in a way which is proportional to the offense
    Restorative Justice - Repairs harm by providing opportunities
  • SENTENCING
    There are five aims to sentencing according to the Criminal Justice Act (2003)
    • Crime reduction - Using punishment as a deterrent
    • Rehabilitation - Criminals who are rehabilitated are less likely to reoffend
    • Public Protection - Removing offenders from the streets protects the public
    • Restorative Justice - Actively doing something to make up for the harm offenders caused (Community Service)
  • PUNISHMENTS
    • Conviction - A formal declaration by a jury following the decision of a judge in court
    • Caution - Is not a criminal conviction and is a formal warning in response to a minor crime
    • Discharge - When a court finds you guilty but does not give a sentence
    • Custodial Sentence - Imprisonment for a period of time
    • On license - Being set free but with certain conditions such as tagging or set hours of unpaid work