New Right Explanations Of Crime And Devience

Question 1

Who is the main researcher for new right explanations of crime?

Answer 1

Murray

Question 2

Single parent households

Answer 2

-Often matriarchal
-Children of under class like stable father figure
-So influenced by negative role models e.g. older boys involved in street gangs and violence.

Question 3

Black Youths

Answer 3

Murray argues majority of the underclass is black, therefore black people are more likely to commit crime

Question 4

Socialisation

Answer 4

Inadequate socialisation leads to young people from under class to develop culture of dependency

Question 5

Welfare benefits

Answer 5

-Overgenerous welfare payments encourage laziness and a lack of discipline/respect
-State benefit benefits undermine work and encourage welfare dependency (Marsland)
-Unemployed have time to commit crime: links to Hirschi, social bond theory

Question 6

Marsland (NR, welfare benefits)

Answer 6

State benefits undermine work and encourage welfare dependency

Question 7

Gallie (AO3,NR, Criticising traditional values)

Answer 7

Found most long-term unemployed individuals have a strong work ethic and wanted to work. No evidence of dependency culture.

Question 8

Charlesworth (AO3,NR, Criticising traditional values)

Answer 8

People in poverty have strong moral values and do not commit crime, despite it being the ‘ easy option,

Question 9

Channel 4, ‘Benefit street’ (AO3,NR, Criticising traditional values)

Answer 9

60% of Birmingham‘s poorest families who claimed benefits were actually in work