Left Realism
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- Created on: 03-04-15 10:33
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- Left Realism
- Basics
- the emergence of the left realism thought was due to the impact of feminism on radical theorising
- the emergence of left realism is due to what was changing political circumstances
- Evaluation
- It fails to look at crimes of the powerful
- not having a model of crime which explains the volume of crime
- It fails to look at the political and ideological sources of crime
- they reject the idea that even a small amount of working class crime could be due to limited opportunities or social arrangements
- they take crime largely at face value
- YOUNG
- six premises for left realism
- crime really is a problem
- We need to look at things in detail so both the causes of crime and understanding its impact
- crime control needs to be taken seriously
- the circumstances of both the offender and the victim need to be considered
- realistic expectations of policing
- we need to be realistic about crime in the present
- six premises for left realism
- TIERNEY
- Four strands to LR
- exploring the relationship between offenders, victims and formal and informal controls
- a focus on causal explanations of crime
- attempting to develop realistic policies aimed at reducing the frequency and impact of victimisation
- the attempt to develop an empirically based picture of local crime and its impact
- Four strands to LR
- Critique of radical criminology
- four key problem ideas
- naive anti-empiricism
- romanticism
- naive abolitionism
- utopianism
- four key problem ideas
- Basics
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