CRM 3301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: White-Collar Crime, Left Realism, Jock Young
16 Feb 2017
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Left realism emerged as a response to the rise in neo-conservatism and its approaches in (3) left realism criminology which blamed crime on individuals. The founders originally supported marxist criminology, but later, they found that its ideas were too radical and that there needed to be more practical or realistic solutions to deal with crime such as prevention policies. For over two decades, it has neglected the effect of crime upon the victim and concentrated on the impact of state through the process of labeling on the criminal. For marxist criminologists, the real victim was the offender, and the offender was the state and capitalism. Left realists rejected the notion of crime being an act of social resistance because a lot of crime was within class and so they were against romanticizing working class offenders. Crime is not an activity of latter day robin hoods the vast majority of working class crime is directed within the working class.
