Thinking Critically about Rural Crime

Title
Thinking Critically about Rural Crime
Publication Date
2013
Author(s)
DeKeseredy, Walter S
Donnermeyer, Joseph F
Editor
Editor(s): Simon Winlow and Rowland Atkinson
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Routledge
Place of publication
New York, United States of America
Edition
1
UNE publication id
une:12814
Abstract
Like all criminological schools of thought, left realism emerged within a particular political economic context. Its life began in the 1980s during the Thatcher years, and as Hayward (2010: 264) observes, the writings of British progressives Jock Young, John Lea. and Roger Matthews sent 'shock waves through radical criminology, opening up personal disputes and ideological cleavages that endure to this clay' These tensions are not limited to the United Kingdom. For example, left-wing attacks on the Canadian realist project range from being accused of 'an exercise in dubious politics and the cult of personality' (O'Reilly-Fleming 1995: 5) to fostering 'a form of intellectual colonization where junior Canadian critical criminologists can be more familiar with developments overseas than with what has happened in their own country' (Doyle and Moore 2011: 7). Such criticism is evidence that left realism has made its mark on progressive ways of thinking about crime and will continue to do so long into the future.
Link
Citation
New Directions in Crime and Deviancy, p. 206-222
ISBN
9780415626484
9780203102657
9780415626491
Start page
206
End page
222

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