Sociology Induction Essay

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Sociology Induction Essay.

The article I have chosen to analyse is “With Knife Crime on the Increase it's back to Basics” by Michael Godfrey. The article discusses the increase in knife crime amongst teenagers in the British isle's and claims that it is a 'lack of respect' that has caused this, claiming that parents are at fault for 'attempting to reason' with their children instead of setting clear boundaries and enforcing rules.

Violent crime effects all members of society negatively, and increase in knife crime causes members of the general public to become paranoid and afraid for their safety. It makes people less likely to want to travel anywhere alone or at night and also to decrease the amount of valuables they keep on their person in order to avoid being “mugged”. Also, looking at knife crime from a more macro perspective, it could be said that increase in crime costs our society economically (the government paying to keep them in overcrowded jails) and culturally (creating a negative image to other countries/societies and harmful stereotypes).

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According to a recent study by the youth justice board, relative poverty among young people has caused many to resort to violent crime in order to get the things they covet (iPods and mobile phones) this combined with poor parents is creating children/teens who grow up to be dysfunctional members of society. Marxists would claim that this is the middle class/upper classes fault, that the working class are so thoroughly oppressed that this is only expected. They would credit this increase in knife crime amongst predominantly working class males as caused by the lack of opportunities provided to those ...

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