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Tag Archives: underclass
The Troubled Families Programme
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
Posted in Crime and Deviance
Tagged crime, New Right, social policy, troubled families, underclass
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The Long History of the ‘Underclass’ Thesis
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
Posted in Families and Households, Sociological concepts
Tagged Charles Murray, New Right, social class, underclass
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Social Class and Crime
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
The Underclass Theory of Crime
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
Posted in Crime and Deviance, right and left realism
Tagged crime, Murray, NEETs, right realism, underclass
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