Evidence Of Youth Disadvantage

Question 1

What are examples of youth disadvantage in workplace?

Answer 1

1. Ritzer
2. BBC three
3. The equality trust

Question 2

What did Ritzer say?

Answer 2

• young people are often on zero hour contracts and in mcjobs

Question 3

What did BBC three say?

Answer 3

• under 25s are treated much more harshly in the benefits system, they don’t get same level of support as people over 25

Question 4

What did the equality trust say?

Answer 4

• young people aged been in a bad situation for the past decade with increasing rental, housing and accommodation costs

Question 5

What are examples of youth disadvantages in relation to health?

Answer 5

1. Youngpeopleshealth.org.uk
2. The guardian

Question 6

What did young people’s health.org.uk say?

Answer 6

• higher rates of obesity at age 10-11 are found in areas of higher deprivation

Question 7

What did the guardian say?

Answer 7

• young people to care for their parents unpaid as council can’t help, by 2037, 6.5m family carers to 9m due to ageing population

Question 8

What are the examples of youth disadvantages in the media?

Answer 8

1. Cohen
2. Griffin
3. Women in journalism

Question 9

What did cohen say?

Answer 9

• negative labelling of youths in the media and labelled as folk devils leading to self fulfilling prophecy

Question 10

What did griffin say?

Answer 10

• youths labelled in the media as dysfunctional, suffering a deficit and deviant

Question 11

What did women in journalism say?

Answer 11

• hoodies or altar boys, negative language used to describe them, few stories showed teens boys in a good light, more stores about teens and crimes, 85% of teen boys said newspapers portray them in bad light but reality tv was seen to be more fair, teenagers weary of other teenagers

Question 12

What are examples of youth disadvantages in relation to crime?

Answer 12

1. Jacobson
2. Harding

Question 13

What did Jacobson say?

Answer 13

• three quarters of children and young people in custody had absent fathers, half had to live in deprived household, half had to run away and others were from care homes, complex backgrounds

Question 14

What did Harding say?

Answer 14

• street casino, turning to crime for income and gamble with their lives, street capital gained by committing deviance