SUBCULUTRES+ CRIME AND DEVIANCE Flashcards
What is the definition of deviant subcultures?
- delinquent in other words where they are involved with deviant behaviour sich as joyriding vandalism and other anti-social behaviour that doesn’t seem to be criminal since it is against the law
define criminal subcultures?
- actively involved in criminal behaviour which can be organised such as drug dealing protection reacts
what do Cloward and Ohlin say about criminal subcultures?
- not everyone will have access to such criminal subcultures
define gangs?
commonly used by media to gang around young people who are together. The gang will have a leader and hierarchy with set rules, norms and values
define spectacular youth subcultures?
- a term used by sociologists to describe highly visible subcultures of the 1850s-70s like teddy boys and punks, very flamboyant
define anti-school subcultures?
- refer to pupils in school who reject the norms and values of the school and reverse them
Willis - the lads
what are some new emerging deviant subcultures?
online communities are emerging like pro-ana online communities and the LAD bible and smaller communities like Little Monsters which are Lady Gaga fans
what does St John argue?
- challenges the notion that youth today lack the identity and resistance of previous generations but that techno tribes are groups of young people brought together through music festivals and social media.
what are the patterns and trends in youth deviance?
- Young people aged 10-17 years accounted for 37% of anti-social behaviour orders issued in 2012.
Since 2005 there has been a year-on-year fall in the number of ASBOs reported with 1329 in 2012 which is a decrease from 1414 in 2001
social class and deviant subcultures link?
- youth from working-class backgrounds more likely to be involved in deviance than any other social class
- ## police target the youth in working-class because they are more visible than the other classes
what does the charity group Barnados argue about?
Children in the youth justice system are predominantly drawn from the poorest and most disadvantaged families.
what does Jacobson et al argue?
- found multiple disadvantages in the 200 children they sampled
- 75% were known to have absent fathers
- 50% lived in deprived households with unsuitable accommodation
- Under 50% ran away at some point in their lives.
- More than 25%witnessed domestic violence, and a similar proportion needed care.
- When it came to education, over halfof them were known to have been expelled and also failed
to attend school.
gender and deviant subcultures link?
male-dominated
- females tend to commit the most serious crimes at a lower rate than males aged 10-17 as they were found to be responsible for 20% in 2009-10 but only 4% for females.
- The peak age for females is 15 and males is 18 but it carries on until the middle 20s
- between 1994 and 2004 the number of women in prison in England and Wales increased by 150%
what does munice argue?
- small rises in recorded crime created a moral panic between female offending and ‘girl gangs’ suggested that the rise of imprisonment of young women has been an overreaction
What’s the link between ethnicity and deviant subcultures? stats
- The home office states that young from black ethnic backgrounds accounted for 21% of young people in custody in 2012/13 though this ethnic group accounts for less than 3% of the population
- they are 7x more likely to be stopped and searched in 2009/10 in home office stats
- black people are 3.3x more likely to be arrested compared to white people in 2009/10
- ## in 2009/10 Asians made up 5.6% of the population but accounted for 9.6% of stops and searches and 7.1% of the prison population
