Liamcrime

It has been all over the news that Boris Johnson has put £3.6 Billion into the funding of 20,000 new police officers and has ‘created’ 10,000 more prison spaces. ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49318400 ). This blog aims to critically examine the portrayal of violence with its causations and solutions through the Neo- conservative lens and its distorted realities as well as methods of Conservative retention of power through these right realist approaches concerning crime and justice. It can be argued that this right realist approach is deeply flawed and problematic. Firstly this policy simply is a case of exploring the issue of a rise in violent crime as being an issue to tackle with punitive measures. The individual is to blame entirely and rational choice is where we must lie our societal blame. However it is apparent that structural issues and social harms fuelled through consumer capitalism and Neoliberal social policy is not considered here. Since the Conservatives have come...

Day after day, the wider media issue reports on violent crimes, with a heavy focus on knife crime. It can be argued that the way in which violent crime is reported in the media focuses on pointing the blame on race, age, gender and the local communities in which they are immersed into. This blog aims to explore these narratives and to point out that the representation of violent crime, in the media is often misguided and does not truly reflect the reality as well as exploring central social structures and political philosophies which need to be held to account as well. On Monday April 1 st , 2019, BBC News published a headline on their website titled, - ‘Schools and NHS could be held accountable over Youth Crime’. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-477686 3 1 The article discussed the ways in which schools and the NHS have ‘failed’ to prevent youth groups falling into violent crime. First, this article is blatant evidence that the wider media are not willing to accept that the Pol...