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Title: A2-Level Sociology


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A2-Level Sociology
  • Left and Right Realism on Crime

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Outline of Realism
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Realism
  • There are two branches of realism, both of which
    have separate theories and ideas.

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Left Realism
  • Left realism provides a casual explanation for
    crime.
  • Left realists look at the individual and the
    causes which could have led them to commit crime.
    This stemmed from Jock Young who was a New
    Criminologists until he realised that the
    criminals (victims) need to be considered and
    after he saw criminals to be the victims of
    capitalism left realism began to look at what
    caused individuals to commit crime.

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Left Realism
  • Left realist theory identifies three causes of
    crime.

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Cause One Marginalisation
  • This refers to the individuals who live on the
    margins of society and therefore cannot take part
    in society.
  • Gibbs and Merighi (1994) argues that the black
    community are marginalised in terms of poverty,
    housing, education and jobs anger and
    frustration ? Crime

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Cause Two Relative Deprivation
  • This refers to some individuals being relatively
    deprived in comparison to others and this
    therefore leads to a sense of injustice and
    resentment.
  • Lea and Young (1992) found that ethnic minorities
    feel resentment due to relative deprivation as
    they see there to be unfair and biased policing
    in their community.

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Cause Three Subcultures
  • This refers to groups of young people, often
    ethnic minority groups, who form sub-cultural
    groups in inner city areas.
  • Messner and Golden (1992) found that where racial
    discrimination existed deep violent subcultures
    flourished.

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Solutions to Crime
  • Left realists want to reduce crime in society by
    way of more community based improvements yet not
    using harsh punishments such as imprisonment.

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Solutions to Crime
Left Realism
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Right Realism
  • Right realism comes from a New Right perspective
    which looks at the causes of crime and what can
    be put in place to deter criminals.

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Right Realism
  • Right realism identifies the following four
    causes to influence crime

People choose to commit crime by weighing up
the pros and cons.
Muscular Low Intelligent Males
Muscular Low Intelligent Males
1. Bio-Social
4. Choice
Causes of Crime
2. Cultural
3. Opportunity
Greater opportunity to commit crime exists in
some areas
  • - SPF
  • - Welfare
  • Dependency
  • Poor Schools
  • Lack of Community

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Solutions to Crime
Right Realism
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  • New right / right realism and left realism
  • causes of crime research task
  • In pairs you need to research and create a ppt
    into
  • New right / right realism
  • Left realism
  • You need to explain
  • The causes of crime
  • Researchers
  • Evaluation of ideas / linked to opposing or
    supporting theorists
  • Stats to support ideas
  • An example exam style question style answer to
    the following question Outline and assess left
    or right realism explanation of
  • the causes of crime
  • Use a variety of text books and the internet
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