"How to sweep beggars from our streets" by David Marsland

CRITICALLY ASSESS NEW RIGHT CRIMINOLOGY BEGGARS Q.1Read 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 …

…a misconception of the truth and the reality being that these people in fact do not harass passers by but beg in a peaceful manner. Field doesn't talk about the underlying reasons behind begging or offers no explanation for why it exists; he only paints a more flowery picture of it instead. Item A:How to sweep these beggars from our streets David Marsland Item B:Adapted from F. Field An Agenda for Britain, 1993, p72