Left realism and crime
- Created by: Harriet
- Created on: 06-06-13 16:58
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- Left Realism
- The Causes of Crime- Lea and Young
- Relative deprivation
- When people feel that others unfairly have more than them, they may resort to crime to obtain what they feel entitled to
- people are now more aware due to media and advertising
- When people feel that others unfairly have more than them, they may resort to crime to obtain what they feel entitled to
- Subculture
- Failure to achieve mainstream goals
- Can lead to criminal groups who accept material and consumerism but obtain them illegitimately
- However it doesn't always lead to crime- some resort to religion for comfort
- Failure to achieve mainstream goals
- Marginalisation
- Unemployed youths have no organisation to represent them and no clear goals
- This felling of powerlessness, resentment and frustration is expressed through criminal means
- Unemployed youths have no organisation to represent them and no clear goals
- Relative deprivation
- Evaluation
- It accepts societies definition of crime being street crime and ignores crime done by the powerful
- It over-predicts the amount of W/C crime- not everyone turns to crime
- Taking Crime Seriously
- The criticises other theories for not taking increasing crime seriously
- To take it seriously it needs to be recognised that its main victims are disadvantaged groups and that there has been a real increase in crime
- Neo-marxists- romanticise W/C criminals
- Labelling theory- sees criminals as victims of labelling
- Tradition Marxists- neglect W/C crime
- The criticises other theories for not taking increasing crime seriously
- Tackling Crime
- Policing and control
- The police must improve their relationships with the local communities by involving them in deciding policing policies and spend more time investigating crime
- Reducing inequality
- Is the main solution and would require a change in structure of society
- decent jobs,stop discrimination and deal with inequality of opportunity
- Is the main solution and would require a change in structure of society
- Policing and control
- Late Modernity, Exclusion and Crime
- Young- In late modern society the problem of W/C crime is worse because....
- Harsher welfare policies, increased unemployment, job insecurity and poverty
- Destabilisation of family and community life is weakening informal social controls
- Young- In late modern society the problem of W/C crime is worse because....
- Like Marxist's, LR's see inequality in capitalism as the root of crime
- The Causes of Crime- Lea and Young
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