Realist Criminology : : Crime Control and Policing in the 1990s / / ed. by John Lowman, Brian MacLean.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Ahluwalia, Seema,; Carlen, Pat,; Currie, Dawn H.,; Currie, Elliott,; DeKeseredy, Walter S.,; Havemann, Paul,; Lowman, John,; MacLean, Brian D.,; Matthews, Roger,; McQueen, Rob,; Menzies, Robert,; Michalowski, Raymond J.,; Pearce, Frank,; Pease, Ken,; Walklate, Sandra,; Young, Jock,
• HerausgeberIn: Lowman, John,; MacLean, Brian,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)

In the 1980s in Britain a new school of critical criminology arose to challenge the political and philosophical idealism that characterized its critical predecessors, and to offer an alternative to the crime control policies of the 'New Right.' Arguing that by overemphasizing the crimes of the powerful, much of critical criminology had virtually ignored the impact of street crime on its victims, a 'left realism' emerged to reassert the centrality of the victim in the development of a progressive criminology. Critical realism recognizes the seriousness of street crime for those people victimized by it (particularly women), acknowledges that a consensus as to the desireability of a core group of laws does exist, and advocates various kinds of criminal justice reform and crime prevention strategies. In this respect, there are important parallels with debates in feminism concerning the role of the state in the problem of violence against women. One of the most important contributions critical realism has made to criminological research is the development of local crime surveys which attempt to measure patterns of victimization and policing and how these are perceived by the general public. Such research remains largely undeveloped in North America, and it is the purpose of this book to begin to take stock of these developments, and examine their relevance for North America. This is the first text to include a critical examination of left realism, examine its relationship to feminism, and comment on its relevance outside Britain.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword: The Criminology That Came in Out of the Cold -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Left Realism, Crime Control, and Policing in the l 990s -- Part One: The Case for Left Realism -- 2. Realist Research as a Basis for Local Criminal Justice Policy -- 3. Developing a Realist Approach to Penal Reform -- 4. Retreatism, Minimalism, Realism: Three Styles of Reasoning on Crime and Drugs in the United States -- Part Two: A Critical Assessment of Left Realism -- 5. Canadian Realist Criminology in the 1990s: Some Reflections on the Quest for Social Justice -- 6. Crime and Justice in Socialist Cuba: What Can Left Realists Learn? -- 7. Beyond Realist Criminology -- 8. The 'Left Regulation' of Prostitution: Reconciling Individual Rights and Collective Interests -- 9. Why Company Law Is Important to Left Realists -- Part Three: Left Realism and Feminism -- 10. Women, Crime, Feminism, and Realism -- 11. Feminism and Realism in the Canadian Context -- 12. Counting What Counts: The Study of Women's Fear of Crime -- 13. Confronting Woman Abuse in Canada: A Left-Realist Approach -- Part Four: Left Realism and Victimology -- 14. Researching Victims of Crime: Critical Victimology -- 15. The Local Crime Survey: Pitfalls and Possibilities -- 16. The Contribution of 'Left Realism' to the Study of Commercial Crime -- 17. A Program of Local Crime Survey Research for Canada -- Contributors