Left Realists

• Left Realist consider 3 main causes of crime;

  • Relative Deprivation
  • Marginalisation
  • Subculture
• Relative Deprivation means how deprived someone feels in relation to others, the main people who experience this is the working class and become a criminal to gain status
• Marginalisation means groups who are marginalised lack both clear goals and organisations to represent their interest so resort to violence
• Subculture means a group sees a collective solution to relative deprivation so will still subscribe to mainstream goals but can't achieve them legally so do street crimes to close the relative deprivation gap
• Young argues we are living in 'late modernity' and the growing wealth gap and rise of individualism have created cultural inclusion (ie material goods) but economic exclusion
• Left Realists consider the solution to crime is greater police involvement and accountability for a multi-agency approach
• Examples of Government Policy on left realist solutions is ASBOs and New Deal which provides training/subsided employment to young people to stop acts of offending