2.3.2.11 - Left realism

• Left realism explores the importance of poverty, inequality, and relative deprivation as the underlying causes of crime
• Left realism draws attention to the reality of street crime and its effects, particularly on the victims from deprived groups
• Left realism recognises that there are multiple causes of crime
• Left realism fails to explain white collar and corporate crime
• Left realism explains why everyone in relative deprivation fails to turn to crime and others not when in the same position
• Left realism is arguably a mixture of other theories pulled together like Marxism