Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Left Realism
- Jock
Young
- developed for the need to take
rising crime seriously and to
produce practical solutions
- developed due to the
influence of right realism on
government policy
- society is unequal
and ruled by
capitalist class
Anmerkungen:
- differ from marxism -
reformists not
revolutionists
Anmerkungen:
- believe in gradual change rather than violent overthrow of capitalism
- need to develop explanations of crime that will lead to practical strategies for reducing it here and now rather than to wait for a classless society to abolish crime
- Taking crime
seriously
- Marxists - concentrate on corporate
crime; neglects working class crime
- Neo-marxists - romanticise working class
criminals; whereas they victimise other
working class people
- Labelling theorists - see working class criminals as
victims of discriminatory labelling; neglects the real
victims (working class who suffer at the hands of
criminals)
- crime has risen since 50s has led to
aetiological crisis (view it as report in w/c
crime has increased and not a real
increase)
- increase is too great
to be explained this
way = real increase
Anmerkungen:
- use victim surveys for evidence
- Causes of crime