left realist approachs to crime

Question 1

what are the 3 factors Lea and Young say can cause crime?

Answer 1

relative deprivation, political marginalisation and subcultures

Question 2

how does relative deprivation cause crime?

Answer 2

people resent others unfairly for having more and resort to crime to obtain what they feel obligied to

Question 3

how do subcultures cause crime?

Answer 3

criminial subcultures subscribe to the values of mainstream society but opportunities to achieve these goals legitmately are blocked, so resort to street crime.

Question 4

how does marginalisation cause crime?

Answer 4

these groups lack clear goals and organisations to represent their interests so they express this frustration through crime

Question 5

what was the perry pre school project?

Answer 5

a randomized study developed by American psychologist David Weikart and conducted from 1962-1967 to track how the intervention of high-quality early childhood education could positively affect the IQ of at-risk, African-American children from low income families based

Question 6

what were the results of the perry pre school project?

Answer 6

Children of the low-income African Americans who participated are more likely to have a high school degree and to be employed, and less likely to have been arrested.

Question 7

what % of crime is reported by the public

Answer 7

90%

Question 8

what is military policing?

Answer 8

swamping an area and conducting random stop and searches

Question 9

what is the affect of military policing?

Answer 9

alienates communities and provokes violent crime and police resistance

Question 10

what do left realists believe the police need to change to fix the issue?

Answer 10

• improve relationships with communities
• change their priorities (drug use>domestic violence)
  use the help of multi-agencies

Question 11

how has left realism affected government policy?

Answer 11

• Tony Blairs firmer approach to crime; ASBOs, SA and DV
• New labour’s New Deal for unemployed youth and anti-trauntibg policy attempted to reverse exclusion of young people

Question 12

Why does Young argue these policies are ineefective?

Answer 12

They only address the symptoms and not the underlying cause

Question 13

Left realism AO3:

Answer 13

• not popular with public
• marxists argue it ignores white collar and corporate crime
• interactionalists argue they focus too much on OS and not the motives (lacks validity)