SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Left Realism, Community Policing, Single Parent

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Mavis Morton

Document Summary

Regards major structural & cultural changes within society as essential to reducing all types of crime and eliminating the unequal administration of justice. Majority of victims of working class crimes are working class people. Seen as a very idealistic kind of explanation, partly because only sweeping major social change can help. Focused almost solely on class, did not explain the inequalities like, race, gender, sexuality etc. Political response to the law and order agenda of the right . Focus on how the working class itself suffers from crime. Left realists, want to rectify the problems of both by reorienting the get tough on crime debate. The inquiry into the brixton riots blames serious social and economic problems in. Detailed specific studies of crime and victimization. Alternative models of crime reduction i. e. drug use as a healthcare issue, not a criminal justice issue. Left realists wanted the police to be from the area that they were policing.