topic 7 - New Right explanations of crime

Question 1

Murray on crime

Answer 1

crime common in UNDERCLASS (below class structure, extreme poverty + long term unemployment)
— lack moral values 😈 (espec marriage 💍 and family 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦)
— parents pass down deviant criminal values to children
— more likely to be single mothers 👩‍👦who dont bring up kids properly (fatalism, resignation, deviance)

Michael Gove: underclass children beyond hope. This group should be sent to manual work not education. “poverty of discipline, poverty of soul”

So, cycle of poverty + crime and deviance handed down generations

Question 2

Murray and Herrnstein

Answer 2

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Some have biological 🧬 predisposition to aggressiveness, impulsiveness, and violence

—> increased likelihood of crime if not curbed by sufficient socialisation (nuclear family w strict father)

Low IQ linked with poverty and crime

cognitive elite have higher positions in society JUSTIFIED

Question 3

Marsland

Answer 3

WELFARE DEPENDENCY has undermined underclass’s sense of commitment, obligation, responsibility and independence.

They become lazy 😴

Welfare state and benefits system creates culture of dependency, creating + maintaining underclass and perpetuating crime and deviance

Question 4

Dennis and Erdos

Answer 4

Modern society lost common values

Rise in liberalism/decline in religion —> decline in moral standards (rude, selfish, urinating in street, littering, drugs, swearing)

Respectable working class communities GONE.

Prioritising RIGHTS > responsibilities —> underclass who offer nothing and are POOR

David Cameron 2012 campaigned against feral yobs, wanting to put them in army