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Left Realism and Social Democratic Renewal [PDF]

International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2016
At its inception Left Realism argued the need to develop a radical social democratic approach to crime. I argue that its contribution and continuing relevance primarily lies in this political project, the need for which has not dissipated.
Russell Hogg
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Left Realism: A Radical Criminology for the Current Crisis [PDF]

International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2016
The renewal of the Left realist tradition in criminology is vital for a critical understanding of crime and criminal justice in the context of a dominant neoliberalism. Left Realism presented two core components: the local democratic community control of
John Lea
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Special Edition: Left Realism Today - Guest Editor’s Introduction [PDF]

International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2016
Since its birth in the mid-1980s, as a major variant of critical criminology, Left Realism continues to ebb and flow. Furthermore, not all Left realist contributions are alike and some are subject to very heated debates.
Walter DeKeseredy
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Contemporary Issues in Left Realism [PDF]

International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2016
Using Roger Matthews’ (2014) book Realist Criminology as a launching pad, this article points to some timely issues that warrant attention from Left Realism.
Walter DeKeseredy
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Left Realism, community and state-building [PDF]

Crime, Law and Social Change, 2010
Left Realism, as it emerged in the mid 1980s in the UK was a policy-oriented intervention focusing on the reality of crime for the working class victim and the need to elaborate a socialist alternative to conservative emphases on 'law and order'. It saw the renewal of high crime, deprived communities as involving democratic police accountability to ...
John Lea
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Scientific Realism Without Reality? What Happens When Metaphysics is Left Out [PDF]

Foundations of Science, 2020
AbstractScientific realism is usually presented as if metaphysical realism (i.e. the thesis that there is a structured mind-independent external world) were one of its essential parts. This paper aims to examine how weak the metaphysical commitments endorsed by scientific realists could be.
Alberto Corti
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Realist Criminology, the New Aetiological Crisis and the Crime Drop

International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2016
This paper aims to provide a summary of some of the key issues outlined in my recent publication Realist Criminology (2014a). It discusses, in particular, the perceived deficiencies of both mainstream and critical criminology in relation to their ...
Roger Matthews
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LEFT REALISM CRIMINOLOGY: BASIS AND PERSPECTIVES

Knowledge International Journal, 2019
Left realism emerges in the early 1980s as a separate department, or direction within the neo-Marxist critical criminology. It results from dissatisfaction and certain criticisms of the foundations on which critical criminology is built, which left realists call left idealism.
Vesna Stefanovska
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Rediscovering the Relative Deprivation and Crime Debate: Tracking its Fortunes from Left Realism to the Precariat. [PDF]

Crit Criminol, 2022
Webber C.
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The Left Movement and National Question; From Romanticism to Realism

Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies, 2016
This article studies the ‘national question’ and its importance in the Left thought and movement from a realistic and pragmatic perspective. It insists that during the history of this movement, the nationalistic reading on the Left thought even in main socialist countries led to confiscating Marxism in favor of the nationalistic interests, though it ...
Sabah Mofidi
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