Left Realism


	Theory	Strengths
	The emergence of left realism is due to what was changing political circumstances The emergence of the left realism thought was partly due to the impact of feminism on radical theorising Left realists criticise much of radical criminology as being left idealism Blaming the poor was like blaming the victim and we should be more occupied by crimes by the powerful There are four key problems with radical criminology that left realists identify TIERNEY Left realism has four main strands YOUNG Left realism has six aims in its work
	Keywords and References	Weaknesses
	NEWBURN, T. (2013) Criminology. 2nd Ed. Oxon: Routledge.	They take crime largely at face value It fails to look at the political and ideological sources of crime It fails to look at crimes of the powerful. Because it does not look at crimes of the powerful it is also criticised for not having a model of crime which explains the volume of crime They reject the idea that even a small amount of working class crime could be due to limited opportunities or social arrangements

The emergence of left realism is due to what was changing political circumstances
The emergence of the left realism thought was partly due to the impact of feminism on radical theorising
Left realists criticise much of radical criminology as being left idealism
Blaming the poor was like blaming the victim and we should be more occupied by crimes by the powerful
There are four key problems with radical criminology that left realists identify
TIERNEY
Left realism has four main strands
YOUNG
Left realism has six aims in its work

They take crime largely at face value
It fails to look at the political and ideological sources of crime
It fails to look at crimes of the powerful.
Because it does not look at crimes of the powerful it is also criticised for not having a model of crime which explains the volume of crime
They reject the idea that even a small amount of working class crime could be due to limited opportunities or social arrangements

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