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Drawing on the relevant criminological literature, critically consider whether psychological or sociological explanations of criminal behaviour offer effective strategies for intervention and the reduction of crime? How useful is this approach for those w
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Drawing on the relevant criminological literature, critically consider whether psychological or sociological explanations of criminal behaviour offer effective strategies for intervention and the reduction of crime? How useful is this approach for those working with offenders in the community? This essay will briefly look at the major sociological theories to explain crime, however due to word constraints I will only focus on anomie/strain, labelling and the rational choice theories to explain criminal behaviour and examine how effective the strategies are for reducing crime. There will be some focus on desistance literature and how I apply these theories to my work with offenders. Upon conclusion it should show that all theories offer effective interventions and strategies but that each explanation contains an argument that may be inadequate on its own. To close, the essay will examine further, situational crime prevention and how we address the needs of present crime problems. There are two main...
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