Crime
Chapter 14 Discussion Questions

• Given the extensive evidence that much crime goes unreported and unrecorded, what reasons can be identified for this? Can we know the 'real' rate of crime?
  
• How far can Left Realist approaches to crime and crime control be described as 'radical'? On what grounds might Marxist criminologists question Left Realists' 'radical' credentials?
  
• To what extent are Right Realist emphases on deterrence the key to understanding and doing something about crime? Are they justified in suggesting that sociological criminology merely makes excuses for offenders?
  
• How far and in what ways is it possible to 'incorporate' women into the explanations of crime offered by Subculture, Labelling, Marxist and Realist theorists? Do we need different explanations for male crime and female crime?