Conveyor belt to crime

Escalating patterns of disorderly behaviour that can lead a person towards a life of crime.

Crime is always a choice…

Conservatives have always been suspicious about socioeconomic explanations of crime. Ultimately conservatives believe that adult citizens are responsible for their behaviour and cannot blame their upbringing or their economic circumstances. Different people will react to the same circumstance in different ways. Some may surrender to the temptations of crime – some will resist them. Crime is always a choice.

…but for some individuals the choice is harder…

Conservatives have sometimes been slow to acknowledge, however, that some people are more vulnerable to crime than others. In a major speech – given in January 2002 – Oliver Letwin MP argued that for certain children who are “born into a certain kind of home… the temptations are stronger and the sources of moral instruction more distant”. He continued:

”An image that springs to mind in describing the personal history of the law-breaker is that of a conveyor belt on which the individual passes through successive stages: neglected or abused child, disruptive pupil, anti-social teenager, young offender, first-time prisoner, repeat offender, hardened criminal. At each stage, the individual has the option of stepping off the conveyor belt. But it cannot be expected that this choice will be made unless society finds ways of providing for the individual not only easily accessible exit points off the conveyer belt to crime, but also a hand helping him to take those exits”.

In an early example of the ‘And theory of conservatism’ Oliver Letwin advocated ways of helping young people escape the conveyor belt to crime and imprisonment for persistent or serious offenders.

Exits from the conveyor belt to crime

In searching for exits from the conveyor belt to crime Oliver Letwin stressed the importance of what he called the ‘neighbourly society’. He highlighted the family and other institutions capable of giving children 3D care. He also expressed interest in moves towards zero tolerance policing so that young people were caught in the earliest stages of criminality and helped off the conveyor belt to crime.

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