Right Realist Solutions to Crime

What are the 4 Right Realist Solutions to Crime

• Increased Policing

• Tougher Sentencing

• Zero-Tolerance Policing

• Situational Crime Prevention Measures

Right Realist Solutions to Crime - Increased Policing

Stronger police presence as a deterrent to criminal behaviour

• advocate for more police officers on the streets

• improved community policies efforts to build trust and cooperation between law enforcement and communities

Right Realist Solutions to Crime - Tougher Sentencing

Support harsher sentences for offenders, including longer prison terms - deters potential criminals and to protect society by incapacitating dangerous individuals

• e.g. ‘three strike laws’ - California: significantly increases the prison sentences of a person who had previously been convicted of a violent crime

Right Realist Solutions to Crime - Zero-Tolerance Policing

Involves cracking down on minor offenses and disorderly behaviour to prevent the escalation of criminal activity - by addressing minor offences

• e.g. New York: Introduced giving police powers to arrest and charge - ‘squegge men’ (broken windows!)

Right Realist Solutions to Crime - Situational Crime Prevention Measures

Aims to reduce the benefits of committing crimes by making targets of crime harder to commit crime against or impossible

• e.g. ‘hostile architecture’: deters people from sleeping/congregating