Left Realism Flashcards
Left realism
Focuses on social and community crime prevention and improving relations between the police and local communities .
Tough on crime not criminals
Evaluation
Left realism
Positives
+Benefits the government, lower classes and society as a whole
+Minimises marginalisation
+gives soloutions instead of criticisms
Evaluation
Negatives
Left Realism
-can be argues the solutions given might not always be effective and people may take advantage
-not much solid evidance as little amounts of reaserch has been carried out
Early intervention
Prevention
Decrease crime rates
prevents the making of criminals
prevents expanding criminal subgroups
saves on costs of prison and welfare.
Helps stop the problem before it becomes one, helps educate children that might go into crime so they can get a good job and avoid it.
Community approach
Prevention
Improve leisure facilities
Reduce income inequalities
Improve housing
Raise the living standards
Decrease relative deprivation so it gives people a better life so they dont need to rely on commiting crimes.
If the area people live in is improved then they will feel like they have the same as everyone else and relative deprovation will be cancelled out.
Improving policing
Prevention
Quash ongoing crimes
Prevent future crimes
Broken windows thesis
Prevents marginalisation
improves policing to make an area safer or feel safer.
Relative Deprovation
Key point
Overtime Deprovation rates have dropped
The standard of living has increased
To get to this place in society people need to commit crimes.
Subcultures
Key point
A smaller culture inside of a culture.
these can form due to frustration of blocked opportunities
Delinquency is a collective response to positivism with a society
Marginalisation
Key Point
Refers to a peoples lack of power.
A group of people in a society that have a clear goal however dont have the organisation to represent them
