Break With Left Idealism
Left Realism emerged from Critical criminology taking issue with "the two major socialist currents in criminology since the war: reformism and left idealism", criticising 'the moral panics of the mass media or the blatant denial of left idealism'
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“If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more, when there is only reality—and reality is horrifying.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)
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—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)