Formative Essay: Youth are more deviant today than they were in the past
This essay explores how youth are more deviant today than they were in the past. Despite the challenges involved, this essay will consider how things have changed for young people and what makes a certain situation become deviant or criminal.
Considering deviant acts in the past with some examples, investigate how things are looked at today for young people and comparing the differences between the two. Also taking into account labelling of youth and deviant acts.
Deviance is often divided into two types of deviant activities-Formal deviance would include things like robbery and assault, and Deviant behaviour refers to acts in society that violates social norms, such as …show more content…
This represented attacks on the peaceful, well ordered way of life.
Hooligans were described as ‘gangs’ and branded in headlines as Un-British, as society deemed their behaviour a threat. Although hooliganism was not gang related in the first instance but rather an established youth culture. Types of ‘hooligan’ behaviour would often include violence, such as fighting in the street, vandalism, drunkenness and robberies, which would cause moral panic in the community.
As citied in Pearson,G; Yvonne Jewkes And Gayle Letherby. Criminology it shows an example of a bank holiday incident which involved 4 young men who were described as boisterous and badly behaved after they got into an altercation and overturned an ice cream barrow, when running from the scene they were heard shouting ‘look out for the hooligan gang’, and young people were labelled by their deviant behaviour. The newspapers and media in the nineteenth century had a big part in promoting the word ‘hooligan’ which led London youth to adopt this …show more content…
If the young man is punched in the street or in a drunken state it would still be a deviant act, but become a criminal offence. Where as a young man punching another in a boxing match is seen as deviant but accepted in society.
To conclude this essay suggests youth are more deviant today than in the past, this is because young people are labelled because of their deviant behaviour and acts, however small this may be.
Its been established that young people act up this role, and the media and publishers have a certain perception of young people and their behaviours and force this onto society, as the media plays a big role in us getting information, and how we get this information.
On the whole young people appear more deviant today than they were in the past, this is due to how media and publishers view them and get information to society.
But if media coverage was as wide spread in the early 1900 as it is today, would we see a balance in numbers in youth deviance behaviour and
This essay explores how youth are more deviant today than they were in the past. Despite the challenges involved, this essay will consider how things have changed for young people and what makes a certain situation become deviant or criminal.
Considering deviant acts in the past with some examples, investigate how things are looked at today for young people and comparing the differences between the two. Also taking into account labelling of youth and deviant acts.
Deviance is often divided into two types of deviant activities-Formal deviance would include things like robbery and assault, and Deviant behaviour refers to acts in society that violates social norms, such as …show more content…
This represented attacks on the peaceful, well ordered way of life.
Hooligans were described as ‘gangs’ and branded in headlines as Un-British, as society deemed their behaviour a threat. Although hooliganism was not gang related in the first instance but rather an established youth culture. Types of ‘hooligan’ behaviour would often include violence, such as fighting in the street, vandalism, drunkenness and robberies, which would cause moral panic in the community.
As citied in Pearson,G; Yvonne Jewkes And Gayle Letherby. Criminology it shows an example of a bank holiday incident which involved 4 young men who were described as boisterous and badly behaved after they got into an altercation and overturned an ice cream barrow, when running from the scene they were heard shouting ‘look out for the hooligan gang’, and young people were labelled by their deviant behaviour. The newspapers and media in the nineteenth century had a big part in promoting the word ‘hooligan’ which led London youth to adopt this …show more content…
If the young man is punched in the street or in a drunken state it would still be a deviant act, but become a criminal offence. Where as a young man punching another in a boxing match is seen as deviant but accepted in society.
To conclude this essay suggests youth are more deviant today than in the past, this is because young people are labelled because of their deviant behaviour and acts, however small this may be.
Its been established that young people act up this role, and the media and publishers have a certain perception of young people and their behaviours and force this onto society, as the media plays a big role in us getting information, and how we get this information.
On the whole young people appear more deviant today than they were in the past, this is due to how media and publishers view them and get information to society.
But if media coverage was as wide spread in the early 1900 as it is today, would we see a balance in numbers in youth deviance behaviour and