Right realism and crime

Etzioni

Modern social life has meant that decision making in communities is pushed away from the people who live in these communities. As a result of this, people tend to feel that it is the job of the police and the state to control crime, rather than local people

Wilson

A solution to crime is to emphasise social bonds between people, and re-moralise people - communitarianism

Millie and Hough

Target hardening is an effective strategy to reduce burglary

Clarke

Crime can be made to seem less attractive in a variety of ways, and the police have used a variety of strategies

Wilson and kellings

broken windows theory

Murray

There used to be an underclass in society (NEET) that lack the norms and values of society. These leads to poor socialisation from a lack of a father which leads to crime

Wilson

Rational choice e theory- crime is a rational choice

Wilson & Hernstein

Bisocial theory. Some people are genetically predisposed to commit crimes as they have certain personality traits such as aggressiveness

Felson

For a crime to occur, a number of different elements should be present, e.g an offender who is capable and willing to commit a crime, an opportunity in the form of a target and a lack of cimmunity supervision