Agw Ineq Crime (youth And Elderly)

Question 1

Harding

Answer 1

Working class youths in London face deprivation and turn to crime for income – Harding calls this a ‘Street Casino’ as they turn to crime and gamble with their lives – street capital is gained through committing deviance/criminal activities.

Question 2

Jacobson

Answer 2

Found that children and young people in custody - three quarters have absent fathers, half had to live in a deprived household, half had run away, from care – “Complex backgrounds”.

Question 3

Financial Times -elderly

Answer 3

The number of over-60s in jail topped 4,000 for the first time on record, more than double the figure 10 years ago. The number of inmates with dementia has risen, while cases of diabetes and hypertension have also soared.

Question 4

Age uk -elderly

Answer 4

of those targeted by fraud scams, the financial loss for older victims (those aged 55 and over) was likely to be nearly twice as much per scam as that for younger age groups.

Question 5

Who

Answer 5

Harding, Jacobson, old: Financial Times, age uk