Left realism Flashcards

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Causes of left realism

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Critical of marxist and neo-marxist ideas for:

  • Celebrate WC deviants as revolutionary heroes
  • Lack of practical policies to reduce crime.
  • Failing to take victimisation seriously (most victims are poor and deprived)
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Lea and Young reasons for crime

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  • Relative deprivation (difference in wealth makes people resentful)
  • Marginalisation (people feel disconnected from society no incentive to follow rules)
  • Subcultures (inequality and lack of opportunity creates status frustration)
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Late modernity and Bulimic society (relative deprivation is made worse by these factors)

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  • Individualistic culture (Focus on self, weakening social bonds)
  • Loss of informal control
  • Growing inequalities
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Change in gap between richest and poorest

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increased by 400% since 1874

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Changes causing the culture of the ‘bulimic society’

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  • Media saturation
  • Mass consumer culture
  • Cultural expectations
  • Globalisation
    These factors causes growing frustration.
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Left realists ways to tackle crime

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  • Tony Blair ‘tough on crime, tough on causes of crime’ integrates left realist ideology.
  • Rehabilitation of offender
  • Role of victim; why are some victims and not others?
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Strengths of left realism

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  • Draws on a range of ideas such as marxist ideas, subcultural ideas and Merton’s strain and anomie.
  • Doesn’t romanticize crime like Marxist do. It takes tackling crime and causes seriously.
  • Sees the importance of community solutions
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Limitations of left realism

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  • Neglects other responses to relative deprivation, such as Merton’s retreatism and ritualism.
  • Neglects that females are more likely to be a victim
  • Neglects white collar crime
  • Doesn’t explain why most of the relatively deprived don’t turn to crime
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