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1
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What is the peak age of offending?

A

15 to 18

2
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Which gender is more likely to offend?

A

Young men

3
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Are young people over or under represented in the statistics?

A

Over represented

4
Q

Official statistics show half of all those convicted are aged what?

A

21 or under

5
Q

A 2002 self report study shows roughly half of Britains secondary school students admitted to what?

A

Breaking the law

6
Q

Young peoples offences are usually what?

A

Short lived
Opportunistic
Isolated incidents
Peer related

7
Q

What are common offences by young people?

A

Under age drinking
Vandalism
Shop lifting

8
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How does cohen explain age of offending in relation to status frustration?

A

Peer group makes up for the lack of status within school or family

9
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How might status frustration explain why young people get involved in deviant behaviour and then give it up?

A

Don’t have job/status their deviant behaviour gives them status among their friends
They give it up as they gain status through qualifications and jobs

10
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Miller says working class males are more likely to get involved in criminal behaviour because of what?

A

Focal concerns of their subculture

Toughness, smartness, trouble, autonomy and excitement

11
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Why might focal concerns be more likely to lead young people into trouble with the law?

A

Peer group conformity

Proving themselves

12
Q

Katz said delinquency is motivated by edgework, what is this?

A

thrill seeking

13
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Katz said edgework applies increasingly to who?

A

girls and young middle class as well as working class boys

14
Q

Right realists - how would control theory explain criminal behaviour amongst young people?

A

teens are more interested in peer group than bonds with family and society
weaker bonds, likely to commit crime

15
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Matza suggested that young people experience ‘drift’ what is this?

A

time when they are no longer children but not yet adults

16
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what did Matza say about drift?

A

societies moral bonds are weakened more likely to commit crime

17
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Matza said techniques of neutralisation provide evidence that delinquents have what?

A

same moral views as rest of society and feel guilt over their actions

18
Q

give examples of how techniques of neutralisation link to mainstream values?

A

‘they deserved it’ - justice

appeal to higher loyalties - protecting family and friends

19
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why are young people more likely to be monitored, stopped, questioned, arrested, charged and convicted?

A

they fit the police stereotype of the typical offender

20
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how might the lifestyle of the young give them greater opportunity to commit crime or be a victim of crime?

A

they go out more - no jobs, stay out longer & later

more likely to be involved in crime

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