Left realism

• Cultural inclusion

  Everyone who lives within society can pursue ideals and concepts of society
• Economically excluded

  Can’t afford things to be relevant in capitalist society
• Left realism

  • Focuses on causes of crime and deviance
  • Believe living in a capitalist society is main cause of crime with cultural inclusion > economically excluded so resort to crime
• Lea and Young, cause of crime: Relative Deprivation

  People are exposed to advertising and consumerist propaganda > commit crime to gain what they feel they’re entitled to
• Lea and Young, cause of crime: Marginlisation

  Groups and demographics of people have no one to represent them > feel frustrated > express through violent crime
• Lea and Young, cause of crime: Subculture

  Criminal subcultures want to achieve material success in society > legitimate means are blocked > commit crime
• Solution to crime: Democratic policing

  Police win public support by being more accountable to local communities, letting them be involved in deciding what policing policies are
• Solution to crime: Reducing inequalities

  Major structural changes to increase equality of outcomes by providing decent jobs and housing
• Criticisms of LR

  • Over predicts amount of w/c crime, not all who are poor and marginalised will turn to crime
  • Marxists = accept authority’s definition of crime being street crime of the poor, ignores crimes of rich and powerful
• Relative deprivation

  How deprived you are in comparison to someone else
• Marginalisation

  Treating a person or group as insignificant