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Contemporary Crises, 1987 Can anything be said in conclusion on the essence of the realist approach? It is important to end by restating that realism originates as a reaction, in current social and political conditions to the absences in radical criminology. These are the absence of a discourse about crime and a refusal to talk about the constructive as opposed to the ...
John Lea
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Left Realism: “Taking Crime Seriously”
, 2022 Left realism emerged in the mid-1980s as a criminological theory of the Left. In 1979 Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government had been voted into power in the United Kingdom on a largely law-and-order ticket. Thatcher led an administration of the radical Right, close in politics to Ronald Reagan’s Republicanism in the United States, bound to ...
Jayne Mooney
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, 2018 Realist criminology and left idealism represent two major strands of critical criminology, sharing a number of features but also representing opposing stances. Viewing crime as a process of social construction means that what is defined as 'crime' changes over time and in different locations.
Roger Matthews
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British and U.S. Left Realism: A Critical Comparison
International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 1991 Left realism has generated enormous interest and controversy in critical criminology over the past several years both in North America and in the United Kingdom. While there are important similarities between the writings from these countries, there are also some deep differences and divisions.
Walter S. DeKeseredy, Martin D. Schwartz
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Jock Young, Left Realism and Critical Victimology
Critical Criminology, 2015 In this paper I reflect upon the legacy of the work of Jock Young for the development of a critical criminology. In doing this I also endeavour to offer a contribution to an internal history of both criminology and victimology but from a very particular, and personal, position. The paper falls into four parts.
Sandra Walklate
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