New Right & Subculture

• Murray 


  • Underclass have deviant/criminal values and a lack of moral values
  • Inadequate socialisation from single mothers and the lack of a paternal role model leads to young men turning to criminal and delinquent subcultures
• Charlesworth 


  • Underclass hold the same values and beliefs as most other people
  • Unemployment and debt has negative effects of self-esteem and health.  
  • Bad economic conditions led to poor physical and mental health - most suffered from depression  
  • Although some people were motivated to commit crime, most did not.
• Murray & Herrnstein 


  • Some people are born predisposed to aggression and argumentativeness so are more likely to commit crime if not socialised into acceptable behaviours
  • Low IQ means that they cannot foresee the consequences of their actions
• Korem 


  • Rise in youth crime and gangs in the middle-class
  • Result of the increase in broken homes and poor socialisation
  • Close-knit nuclear families help to steer children away from crime
• Marsland 


  • State is too generous with benefits which leads to a culture of dependency whereby individuals are not self-reliant
  • Schools and religion have become less effective agencies of social control - the moral glue in society which gave it authority has gone, leading to a decline in morality and the breakdown of the moral fabric of society.
• Dahrendorf 


  • Underclass is growing exponentially as a result of globalisation
  • The automation of lots of manual labour jobs led to mass unemployment for the working-class