Key Study - Policing the Crisis by Hall et al - Flashcards in A Level and IB Sociology

1. How does Young criticise Hall?

Says it was bound to rise as result of unemployement but was also not rising quickly
Your too old!
Study provides no evidence that public were panicing over mugging, or that they identified crime with black people
Fails to explain how panic was created

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Moral panic over muggins commited by black youth, no real evidence
Way 1 and way 2
Convinced the public that society's problems caused by immigrants and not capitalst system faults, Gov could justice use of force to surpress the groups that challenged them
By the context of the problem, that the 1970's had fiancial troubles, lead to hegemony being threated, threated ruling class, needed force to control crisis

By the context of the problem, that the 1970's had fiancial troubles, lead to hegemony being threated, threated ruling class, needed force to control crisis
Convinced the public that society's problems caused by immigrants and not capitalst system faults, Gov could justice use of force to surpress the groups that challenged them
Moral panic over muggins commited by black youth, no real evidence
By screaming like a headless Torchic!

Labelling of large numbers of young blacks as deviants, made figures appear to show rising levels of black crime, lead to justified stronger police measures
They got stampeded in all the chaos!
Unlabelling of small numbers of young blacks as deviants, made figures appear to show falling levels of black crime, lead to unjustified weaker police measures
Convinced the public that society's problems caused by immigrants and not capitalst system faults, Gov could justice use of force to surpress the groups that challenged them