Peak age for offending is 18 for males, 15 for females which suggest crime is committed by more young people. Deviance is closely linked to crime through edgework.
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Downes (1966)
Found limited evidence of subcultural values when studying WC youth in East London
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James Patrick (1973)
Glasgow gangs, found that gang territories sit within the poorest neighbourhoods.
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Stan Cohen (1970)
Folk devils and moral panics
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Collinson (1996)
Dismisses subcultural explanations, arguing that youth crime is primarily motivated by masculine pressures.
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Winlow and Hall (2006)
Violent night, using ethnography they found that high levels of alcohol led to violence
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Hirschi (1969)
Control theory- social bonds stop us committing crime
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Sampson and Laub (1990)
But adolescents loosen the bonds with parents (counter to Hirschi)
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Card 2
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Found limited evidence of subcultural values when studying WC youth in East London
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Downes (1966)
Card 3
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Glasgow gangs, found that gang territories sit within the poorest neighbourhoods.
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Card 4
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Folk devils and moral panics
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Card 5
Front
Dismisses subcultural explanations, arguing that youth crime is primarily motivated by masculine pressures.
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