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Title: Crime and deviance

Description: crime and deviance

Total Flash Cards: 8

Created: 05/09/2005 02:33:53

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right realist main thinker and study
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James Wilson - 'broken windows' - if one is broken so are the rest of them - zero tolerance
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right realist views
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social control breas down and crime flourishes
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right realist views on how social breakdownis controlled
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by other members of society who attempt to inforce their values
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what was etzioni's view on how crime can be solved?
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only local communities and local face-to –face relationships can solve social problems.
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how does Wilson believe crime can be dealt with?
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through the police using order maintanance to crush small offences such as youths being violent
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what do right realists believe is the causes of crime?
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there are many which the gov. is incapable of sorting them out
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wilson and hernstein's view
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crime = inevitable
socialisation of childern not occur in lowintelligence families
those which commit crime have less respect
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how have the right realists been criticised and who by?
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Platt and Takagi - only working class crimes, does not explain causes of crime, social order at expense of justice