Left Realism

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dc.contributor.authorWindle, Jamesen
dc.contributor.editorHarkness, Alistairen
dc.contributor.editorPeterson, Jessica Renéen
dc.contributor.editorBowden, Matten
dc.contributor.editorPedersen, Cassieen
dc.contributor.editorDonnermeyer, Joseph F.en
dc.date.accessioned2025-09-01T11:00:05Z
dc.date.available2025-09-01T11:00:05Z
dc.date.issued2022en
dc.description.abstractLeft Realism is an applied integrative theory. It is founded upon a social democratic position and draws from a range of sociological theories. It emerged during the late 1980s in response to the growing scholarly and policy influence of more conservative criminology. Elliot Currie suggests that there are two variants of left realism. Original Left Realism (with capitals) was pioneered by Jock Young and colleagues. The second, which Currie calls ‘plain left realism’ (without capitals), shed some elements that were of its time and place (that is, in the United Kingdom in the late 1980s) and is a ‘big tent’ under which many criminologists meet, including those who may not identify with original Left Realism. Nonetheless, several common principles draw all left realists together: they take lived experiences seriously, acknowledge that crime affects some communities more than others and identify crime as an endemic product of inequality. Traditionally associated with street crime in urban areas, Left Realism has been used by a small number of scholars to explore a range of rural issues. The theory has influenced, for example, James Windle’s research on opium cultivation in Asia and farm theft in Ireland, and Walter DeKeseredy, Joseph Donnermeyer and Martin Schwartz’s collaborative and individual work on sexual violence against women in rural areas, agricultural crime and rural drug markets. The latter’s body of work advanced Left Realism by employing feminist and masculinity theories, areas original Left Realism failed to sufficiently engage with. The original Left Realists critiqued the critical criminology literature for dismissing that crime disproportionally affects the economically disadvantaged and socially excluded.en
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dc.identifier.citationWindle, J. (2022) 'Left Realism', in Harkness, A., Peterson, J. R., Bowden, M., Pedersen, C. and Donnermeyer, J. F. (eds.) The Encyclopedia of Rural Crime. Bristol: Bristol University Press, pp. 37-39. https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529222036.ch009en
dc.identifier.doi10.51952/9781529222036.ch009en
dc.identifier.endpage39en
dc.identifier.isbn9781529222036en
dc.identifier.isbn9781529222005en
dc.identifier.isbn9781529222005en
dc.identifier.isbn9781529222029en
dc.identifier.isbn9781529222036en
dc.identifier.startpage37en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/17818
dc.language.isoenen
dc.relation.ispartofThe Encyclopedia of Rural Crimeen
dc.rights© 2022, Bristol University Press. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copy edited version of an entry published in The Encyclopedia of Rural Crime.The definitive publisher-authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529222036.ch009en
dc.subjectLeft Realismen
dc.subjectStreet crimeen
dc.subjectUrbanen
dc.subjectRuralen
dc.titleLeft Realismen
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