ABSTRACT
Radical realism has a short, punctuated and rather fragmented history in criminological theory. The first signs of radical realist dissents against the idealism of left-liberal criminology, came from Elliott Currie in the USA and Jock Young in the UK. Some radical criminologists describes the social inequality of risk and the clash between the encouragement of risk, the criminalization and containment of risk. Most feminists operating in the field of critical criminology adopts a realist, experiential approach in the singular dimension of violence against women. The principal aim of mainstream feminist criminology is to make the victim more visible and to introduce the crime and victimization that are highly gendered phenomena. Psychosocial criminology's potential is used to provide explanations for criminal and harmful activity. It is realized when the sub-discipline equips itself to analyse the broader and deeper contexts and all levels of causation from the micro to the meso and the macro.
