Left Realism

Question 1

Key Ideas

Answer 1

1. crime due to capitalist society
2. relative deprivation (treatment of the poor)
3. subculture
4. marginalisation
5. square of crime
6. radical theories romanticise criminals

Question 2

square of crime

Answer 2

1. relationship between all actors and reactors influences crime rates
2. reactor:
   a) agencies (police= formal control) b)the public (informal control)
3. actors:
   c) offender d)victim
4. crime control through intervention on all parts of square
5. context= critical