Patterns And Trends In Youth Deviance

Question 1

Jacobsen et al (2010)

Answer 1

found multiple disadvantages and complex backgrounds in the majority of the children in custody that they sampled

Question 2

Lea and Young

Answer 2

statistics often miss out ‘intra racial’ crime that takes place within ethnic minorities. Eg most crime committed by black males is against other black males

Question 3

Muncie (1999)

Answer 3

suggests that small rises in recorded crime create a moral panic about female offending but it is an exaggeration