Left Realism and Social Democratic Renewal

Hogg, Russell

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“…In another context, the punitive turn affecting developed countries can be explained partially by the rise of far-right and populist political movements which use the punitive rhetoric as an essential element of their anti-migration and xenophobic discourse (Hogg 2016). As a result of electoral competition, the punitive rhetoric has pushed many western governments to harden their criminal policies and to move away from left realism and the rehabilitation ideal (Matthews 2014).…”

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Explanations for the Punitive Turn of Crime Policy in Bolivia, 2006-2016

Stippel

Moreno

2018

Int J for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy

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In the last decade, Bolivia, as with most countries in the region, has seen an unprecedented increase of its prison population. This is often explained as the consequence of a punitive populism sweeping Latin America. Our article investigates what triggered this punitive turn in Bolivia by identifying some of the factors that impact crime policy and growing prison populations since the election of president Evo Morales in 2006. We argue that a complex array of local and international factors and shifts in crime policy to harden approaches to domestic violence led to steep increases in remand populations. Combined with other inefficiencies in the criminal justice system, this led to sustained increases in the prison population throughout most of this period. This study is based on new and previously unstudied statistical data produced by the Bolivian institutions in charge of implementing crime policy.

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Explanations for the Punitive Turn of Crime Policy in Bolivia, 2006-2016

Stippel

Moreno

2018

Int J for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy

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Rediscovering the Relative Deprivation and Crime Debate: Tracking its Fortunes from Left Realism to the Precariat

Webber

2021

Crit Crim

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This article revisits the concept of relative deprivation and asks whether it is still useful for criminology. The article traces the way relative deprivation has been used in the past to understand crime and how it has connections to other, more recent, additions to debates on social justice. I argue that relative deprivation has disappeared even in the place that it had become the key explanation for crime—left realism. In so doing, I explore the resurrection of left realism in criminology—what I refer to as “post-millennial left realism”—first, by those who were associated with it originally, and then with Hall and Winlow’s (2015, 2017) shift in emphasis to what they term “ultra-realism.” I maintain that relative deprivation is still a powerful concept for bridging several related areas that should still be central to the concerns of criminology—in part, because it is still a major concern in popular social science and social psychology. Why has it disappeared in criminology? I present an argument that suggests that the absence of certain research methods, such as ethnographic and qualitative or small-scale survey methods, has impoverished our understanding of the lived reality of people experiencing the social transformations of a networked, precarious society. The massive polarization and disruption in politics and social discourse, as well as the worldwide economic, public health, and social transformations (ranging from the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter protests to the COVID-19 global pandemic) have demonstrated the continued relevance and analytical power that relative deprivation, in its elaborated form, brings to questions of crime and justice.

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Left Realism and Social Democratic Renewal

Cited by 2 publications

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Explanations for the Punitive Turn of Crime Policy in Bolivia, 2006-2016

Explanations for the Punitive Turn of Crime Policy in Bolivia, 2006-2016

Rediscovering the Relative Deprivation and Crime Debate: Tracking its Fortunes from Left Realism to the Precariat

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