Social Class + Youth

Question 1

Name:

Two statistics for social class and deviancy

Answer 1

• Police recorded crime figures show that lower class youth are more likely to be involved in crime and deviancy
• Barnado’s found that children in the youth criminal justice system are predominantly from poor families

Question 2

Jacobson et al.

Answer 2

• 3/4 of young people in custody had absent fathers
• 1/2 came from deprived households
• 1/4 had experience of the care system

Question 3

Name:

Key thinkers for criminal/delinquent subcultures

Answer 3

• Albert Cohen (1955)
• Cloward and Ohlin (1961)

Question 4

Name:

Key thinkers for gang membership

Answer 4

• Decker + Van Winkle (1996)
• White (2002)
• Charles Murray (1984)

Question 5

Name:

Key thinker for anti-school subculture

Answer 5

Martin Mac an Ghaill (1994)

Question 6

Albert Cohen

(1955)

Answer 6

• Status is harder for working class youths to achieve legitimately
• “Status frustration”

Question 7

Cloward and Ohlin

(1961)

Answer 7

• Lower class less able to achieve higher education, employment
• “Blocked opportunities”

Question 8

Decker and Van Winkle (1996)

Answer 8

• Gangs attractive to working class youth
• Gain status, money, excitement

Question 9

White (2002)

Answer 9

Gangs linked to “underclass” conditions

Question 10

Martin Mac an Ghaill

Answer 10

• Studies male students responses to school
• Ordinary lads - not academic, indifferent to school
• Academic achievers - Pro-school, worked hard
• Macho lads - form anti-school subcultures, act tough