Left Realist Solutions to Crime

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What do left realists focus on?
Organization of society and the inequality, disadvantage and poverty which is the enviroment where crime may become the norm
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What are they three main changes they put forward?
Deal with the deeper structural causes of crime, improve policing and restorative justice
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What are the deeper structural causes of crime?
Unequal nature of capitalist society - Unequal wealth and opportunities causes culture of envy and undermines social cohesion
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How do left realists argue the structural causes of crime should be fixed?
Politicians need to change the economic and social conditions that cause crime esp young/ethnic minority
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What do left realists argue crime is?
A rational response to a lack of legitimate opportunites and the powerlessness that deprived groups feel in terms of improving their situation
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What policies do left realists think the government should apply in inner cities?
Educational programes, Minimum pay legislation, Reduce inequalities in income and wealth, Economic investment
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How do left realists feel about the UK being meritocratic?
If people truely believed it was they would less likely to commit crime and more needs to be done to improve peoples economic and social opportunites
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What are three evaluative points of left realist solutions to crime?
Criticised for being soft on criminals and crime (Blame society not criminal), fail to explain why majority in poverty don't commit crime and Right Realists say tighter controls are needed along with better socialisation of kids and severe punishment
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How do Lea and Young think we should improve policing?
Use the assistance of the local communities and tackle institutional racism
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What is restorative justice?
Encourages offender to take responsibility for their actions and repair the harm they have done by apologising to victims and giving back to the community
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Who did a study on restorative justice and what did they find?
Sherman and Strang - General public had misconceptions about it, saw as weak and favouring offender but found victims favoured it as it reduced their fear of crime and anger at offender
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Who outlines another aspect of restorative justice?
Braithwaite - Reintregative shaming, labeling of the act as deviant not the person, offenders aware of impact but can change, encourages remourse this makes victims forgive more, allows society to readmit offender
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How does Braithwaite support his argument that reintrigative shaming works?
Reoffending and crime rates tend to be lower in societites where reintrigative rather than disintregative shaming is used
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What is an evaluation of restorative justice?
Evidence suggests general public associate restorative justice with rehabilitation and reform which are seen as favouring the criminal
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