Youth subcultures crime

• police recorded stats


  Show youth from working class are more likely to commit crime and Vivian, such as the typical offender concept, which is a young black, working-class male
• Barnardos


  Kids in youth criminal justice system have disadvantage families

  -Jacobson et al says 200 kids have multiple disadvantages such as 3/4, having absent fathers

  -Miller says you have inadequate socialisation and developed focal concerns
• Chambliss


  Saints and roughnecks both deviant and committed deviant acts, but the saints got away with it due to coming from middle-class, good status and good homes, but the roof necks were seen as deviant due to their working class status

  Labelled differently due to their class, differences and increased deviance, because the working class were resistant
• Cicourel


  negotiation of justice – police influenced by typification
• left realist explanation


  Accept, typical criminal concept

  Lea & young- young, working class, feel deprived and marginalised, and this shows their excluded and crime and social class or related
• functionalists


  Merton – strain theory and goals

  Coward & ohlin- blocked opportunities and they joined one of three deviant subcultures

  Cohen – status frustration for working class, young boys

  Miller – focal concerns for working class, young boys
• neo Marxist- CCCS


  Hebdige- punks

  Hebdige- mods

  Jefferson – teddy boys

  Clarke- skinhead