New Right explaining Youth Deviance Flashcards
What is the New Right view on Youth Deviance?
They see youths in deviant subcultures as not having received the appropriate socialisation into the value consensus.
They suggest that the government should cut benefits and use the Criminal Justice System more harshly.
There’s a different set of norms and values based on dependency criminality and laziness.
MURRAY ‘UNDERCLASS’
They don’t want to work and are dependent on the welfare.
They are a deviant subculture, gangs and anti-school subcultures show this alternative culture.
What did the 2005 Sunday Times say?
Girls without fathers may be emotionally damaged, they search for a father figure through partners thus get pregnant at an early age.
Single-parent families were more damaging and a good indication of criminality.
Boys without father figures grow up to be unsocialised and have poor impulses, they are sexual predators and they disappear after the baby is born.
