Patterns and trends in youth deviance

Question 1

What is an ASBO

Answer 1

• anti-social beavipur order
• issued for petty offences
• e.g spraying graffiti
• people aged 10-17b account for 40% of ASBO’s in 2012
• higher than any other age group

Question 2

What are some trends about ASBO’s ?

Answer 2

• since 2005 there has been a gradual decrease in the amount given
• 2013 had the lowest amount of youths entering the criminal system in a decade
• people aged 10-17b account for 40% of ASBO’s in 2012

Question 3

What does Jacobsen say about class and how its related to patterns and trends ?

Answer 3

• found disadvantages and complex backgrounds in the 200 youth criminals he investigated
• 75% had absent fathers
• 50% had lived in a deprived household
• all 200 youth criminals had experienced a disrupted education

Question 4

What does Campbell say about gender and crime ?

Answer 4

• Official statistics say that the difference between male and female crime is a lot bigger than what the difference actually is

Question 5

What did Muncie say about gender and crime ?

Answer 5

• Small rises in recorded crime created moral panic about ‘girl gangs’
• The reaction to the increase in female imprisonment is over-exaggerated

Question 6

What did Lea and Young say about ethnicity and crime ?

Answer 6

• UK statistics miss out the fact that most crime is intra-racial (within ethnic communities)
• racially motivated crime is a lot less than intra-racial crime
• Once this was understood, explanation could be looked at with black communities such as street culture, poverty and deprivation

Question 7

Social class patterns and trends: Barnados youth charity

Answer 7

• Suggested that children in the youth criminal justice system are predominantly from the poorest and most disadvantaged families

Question 8

Social class patterns and trends: The Cambridge study

Answer 8

• Sample of 400 young males
• Suggested that socio-economic deprivation was a key predictor of future criminality