A-level Sociology (Paper 3- Crime and Deviance) Flashcards on 6. Realist Explanations of Crime and Deviance, created by Catherine Rayner on 22/04/2018.
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What are the two branches of realism?
What are realists key assumptions?
What research methods do they favour?
LEFT REALISTS
What is meant by 'structural causes of crime'?
Left Realists argue that crime is caused by Marginalisation
What does Young (1997) argue about working class and black youths?
What is marginalisation?
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Young argues that crime is most likely to follow when individuals or groups feel relatively deprived.
What does this mean?
However, Young does argue that relative deprivation alone does not cause crime (explain)
In the age of late modern society, characterised by risk, instability and insecurity, crime appears to be worse
HOW?
What impact has the media had?
What is 'relative deprivation downwards'?
Criminal and deviant subcultures emerge as a group response to marginlisation and relative deprivation
What are the impact of subcultures?
What practical solutions do left realists put forward?
Left Realists favour 'justice' policies. What are these?
RIGHT REALISTS
What do right realists say are the causes of crime?
They blame biological differences for crime.
Explains this further (Wilson and Herrnstein (1985))
Murray (1990) sees the growth of the underclass as the key cause of crime...
How does this lead to crime?
Right Realists say that crime is to do with rational choice (Cornish and Clarke (1986))
What else do they argue?
Felson (2002) promotes similar ideas in 'routine activity theory' - What does this mean?
Marshland (1988) argues that crime and deviance is linked to a breakdown in the moral fabric of society (explain further)
Wilson (1975) suggests that crime is linked to a breakdown in the social order in some communties, why does this cause more crime?
Cornish and Clarke (1986) suggest that crime is linked to the situations in which deviant acts find themselves, what does this mean?
What practical solutions do Right Realists suggest?
What are their solutions for each issues talked about?
EVALUATION
Left Realists have gained empirical support from Jones et al.'s (1986) local Islington crime survey..
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Empirical evidence of Right Realism - Research by Flood-Page et al. (2000) offers partial support for Murray's view on 'family decline'
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Although, Flood-Page et al. (2000) shows a correlation between family structures and offending...
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Response to OCS?
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How do interactionists evaluate realists view?
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How do feminists evaluate realists explanations?
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How do Marxists evaluate realist ideas?
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How do functionalists evaluate realist explanations?
NOTE FOR EVALUATION
IN CONCLUSION, perhaps the greatest strength of realist approaches is that they recognise that crime and deviance cannot be explained away as a social construction...
