Tag Archives: underclass

The Troubled Families Programme

Posted on January 9, 2017 by

The Troubled Families Programme is a good example of a New Right social policy aimed at tackling criminality by targeting the so called underclass, it basically involves local authority workers intervening in so called troubled families in order to get them … Continue reading →

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The Long History of the ‘Underclass’ Thesis

Posted on January 4, 2017 by

Charles Murray’s Underclass Theory – the idea that there is a ‘hardcore’ of a few hundred thousand families and individuals who are welfare-dependent and responsible a disproportionate amount of crime in society has a long history: In Victorian times there … Continue reading →

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Social Class and Crime

Posted on October 30, 2016 by

In this topic we examine the relationship between social class and crime. According to available statistics, class background is correlated with both the amount of and type of offending, but there are some significant limitations with the statistics on social … Continue reading →

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The Underclass Theory of Crime

Posted on June 1, 2016 by

An American Sociologist Charles Murray (1989) first coined the term ‘the underclass’ to refer to that group of people in America who were long term unemployed and effectively welfare dependent. In the late 1980s he argued that the first generation … Continue reading →

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