SOC 3710 Study Guide - Final Guide: Youth Criminal Justice Act, Juvenile Delinquency, Moral Panic
9 Jun 2016
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Youth and moral principles : stanley cohen. Two sub cultures (rockers; leather jackets, blue jeans, elvis like style, drugs etc. ) (mods; weirder, drove vespa, style like the beatles). There was a clash between these two groups. They decided that all they have to do is put people into higher education and things will get better and solve the problem. creation of a folk devil . A way to identify people who are a threat to society, it doesn"t have to necessary be teenagers it can be any group or person. This was the term that devil used to describe these groups; violent, deviant. Too much leisure opportunity, no bosses or jobs role of the media. Usually the media sheds violence that involves youth in a bad light; they don"t focus on helping the youth but instead say things like angry kids , bad kids or. Violent kids . other sources: style, music, drug use.
