Crime Theorists Flashcards
The James bugler case “unleashed moral outrage unprecedented in it’s emotive force”
Scraton, 1997
The Disappearance of Childhood
Neil Postman, 1993
Anecdotal evidence rather than statistical - small sample - unreliable.
Feeds assumptions of children as innocent and sweet
We need to move from being forgiving of crime to be more considerate of victims
Condemn more, understand less.
John Major, 1993
The Home Secretary moved the sentence from 8 to 15 years
“All over the country parents were viewing their sons in a new and disturbing light”
Sunday Times, 1993
“It is impossible to listen to the taped confessions of Robert Thompson and Jon Venables without feeling the most confusing mixture of revulsion and distress - not only for James”
Independent, 1993
Children as “demonic harboured of potentially dark forces which risk being mobilised, if by dereliction or in attention, the adults worlds allow them to veer away from the straight and narrow path that civilisation has bequeathed for them”
Hockey, James and Prout,
“We are going to have two sorts of nations, one of adults who will be successful in every sphere of life… The other nation will be from emotionally deprived backgrounds, backgrounds of instability, emotional chaos, parental strife, of moral vacuum. It frightens me”
Melanie Philips, 1994
“To be a child of adult supervision, visible on city centre streets, is to be out of place”
Connolly and Ennew, 1996
Stranger Danger unsettled
Scranton, 1997
Children as passive consumers
Buckingham, 2000
Exploring the law as a force for good (or bad), or as a force at all.
- does it treat all citizens equally?
Carol Smart, 2005
‘Ministers believe that problems on the streets often begin at home and want persistent binge drink and their parents sign good behaviour contracts and attend therapy and training courses. Those who refuse face the threat of court’
-DEBATE: should parents be punished for their children’s crimes
Guardian, 2013
When Children Kill Children
Asquith, S. 1999
Bulger and Redergard,
Developments in juvenile system
Changing notions of childhood and the competences and abilities of children articulate change in major institutions such as criminal justice systems and the structural relationships between adults and children
Children & Crime
Holman, B. And Holman, J. E., 1996
Hooligans and Rebels? An oral history of working class childhood and youth.
Humphries, S., 1981
