... from selfish and wicked people who were undeterred by the criminal justice system which had gone 'soft' on criminals' Wilson believed that in order to combat crime there needed to be a remedy, he suggested that through increased education, encouraged community organisation, modernising poor housing and provision of counselling for young trouble delinquents there lay the answer. Marsland takes a similar view on combating begging. His remedy for the situation was the toughening up of laws that were perhaps to lax and return to the Victorian invention of work houses. Beggars needed to know the value of hard work, self reliance and respectability. The causes of begging in Marsland's opinion Michelle Deluce Tutor: Joanne Green CRIMINOLOGY Page 2 were 'The hand-out culture of the decaying welfare state' basically to mean that the government were to quick to give out benefits and therefore creating a society that relies on money handouts and causing people not ...

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