New Right Explanations

• New Right explanations


  Examine the role of socialisation as a cause of criminal and deviant behaviour
• Underclass


  According to the New Right, years of welfare dependency had created a generation of idle young men who viewed criminality as a legitimate career opportunity
• Lone-parent families


  Most commonly headed by females, which the New Right suggests leads to boys lacking the "tough love' of a father figure
• New Right theories draw on the ideas of functionalism, suggesting that social policies of the 1960s and early 1970s had created 'welfare dependency