Youth Deviance

Question 1

Nacro (2006)

Answer 1

Social class is the key determining factor to youth deviance

Question 2

Messerschmidt (1993)

Answer 2

Crime is masculine! Working class white youth tended to commit minor theft and vandalism, whereas ethnic minorities committed crimes in street gangs which were often more serious crime. However, they were also working class. Middle class crime was based around recreational drugs

Question 3

Muncie (2004)

Answer 3

Traditional femininity opposes deviant behaviour

Question 4

Cohen (1973) - Media

Answer 4

‘Moral Panic’ were used to distract people in the media from larger issues such as the economy or blame the issues on targeted youths who were stereotyped such as the Mods and Rockers in 1964. Over-reporting from the media of the Mods and Rockers fighting in 1964. They became folk devils.

Question 5

Becker (1963)

Answer 5

Labeling and self fulfilling prophecy. Some social groups are more likely to be seen as deviant or different and are labeled as such. Being unable to shake off this label leads to them fulfilling the expectations behind it.

Question 6

CCCS (1970’s)

Answer 6

Neo Marxists who studied spectacular youth subcultures - mods, rockers, teddyboys, punks - and believed that social class was the most crucial social division.

Question 7

Alexander (2000)

Answer 7

Claimed the media had created the Asian Gang subculture ‘myth of the Asian gang’ and that their was no evidence of young groups of Asians terrorising other ethnic groups.

Question 8

Thornton (1995)

Answer 8

used the concept of moral panics to explain recreational drug taking by people in the 1990s.

Question 9

Smart (1976)

Answer 9

Young males have less informal control exercised in their lives

Question 10

Abrams (1959)

Answer 10

as young people pass through transitional stage of youth, on route to achieving adulthood they are bound to stray from the accepted norm.