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Michelle Deluce Tutor: Joanne Green CRIMINOLOGY Page 1 CRITICALLY ASSESS NEW RIGHT CRIMINOLOGY BEGGARS Q.1 Read Item A. To what extent does Marsland's analysis fit the right realist approach? In the piece on 'How to sweep beggars from our streets' by David Marsland, he likens them to menaces in society and an 'eye sore' littering the streets of towns and major cities. His somewhat archaic view in that a need to adopt a more Victorian approach to tackling the problem of begging mirrors the right realist view on crime. John Major in his 'law and order' debate talked about going 'back to basics' and with a rise in crime their explanation was to blame a 'decline in moral values' as the main factor. Marsland believed that beggars had no moral fibre and that the problem did not stem from capitalism or poverty but their mere existence was a 'blot on the complex but orderly copy-book of a modern...

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