Left Realism
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- Created on: 03-12-15 13:49
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- Left Realism
- Relative deprivation
- lea and Young
- Someone feels deprived in comparison to others
- 'the lethal combination is relative deprivation and individualism'
- Individualism weakens families and communities thus control of social agents
- Subculture
- Different groups produce different solutions to relative deprivation
- Some turn to crime, other to spiritual means 'theodicy of disprivilege'
- Criminal subcultures still subscribe to goals but lack legitimate means of achieving them
- Margina-lization
- lack clear goals and organisation
- being powerless to use political means, they express their frustration through criminal and violent means
- Tackling crime
- Increased relationship between police and public
- deal with opportunity and the unfairness of rewards e.g. provide decent jobs for everyone
- Criticisms
- Henry and Milovanovic: accepts the authorities definition of crime being committed by the poor
- need qualitative data rather than quantitative to learn motives
- Their use of subcultural theory assumes the value consensus exists
- Over-predicts the amount of crime
- focus on high crime inner city areas gives an unrepresentative view and makes crime appear a bigger problem than it is
- Relative deprivation
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