Examine the social construction of youth crime and consider the myth of youth crime.

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Cri201 Helen Telfer

Examine the social construction of youth crime and consider the myth of youth crime.

I have chosen to base my essay on youth crime. It is an area that I have enjoyed learning about and have found the subject very interesting. I am going to examine what is meant by social construction and consider the myth of youth crime.

I'm going to start by making clear what is meant by social construction. Muncie explains 'the term has nothings to do with ' the cultures which children construct for and between themselves'. During our period of 'childhood'- both the institution and the construction of - was composed by adults; usually those of the professional middle class. This is not meant to sound conspirational. No attempt is being made to suggest that children's condition is entirely devoid of a biological dimension, or to deny the effects physical being, though the nature of the consanguinity between the social psychological and the biological is extraordinarily problematic.

Muncie, is arguing that social construction is nothing to with the cultural background in which we as children are brought up in. I argue that this can't be right, we are