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Youth Deviance (Why young people might be deviant (Resistance: the refusal…
Youth Deviance
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Girls
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Youth crime usually equals young, male, street crime and is highly visible - limited data that considers ethnic and gender issues
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Media stories highlight moral panics about girls concerning their violent behaviour and sexual vulnerability
the report for the Children's Commissioner (2011) identified the roles that girls adopt in street gangs describing their violent and sexual behaviour
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Moral panic: A widespread fear, most often an irrational one, that someone or something is a threat to the values, safety and interests of a community or society at large.
An extreme social response to the belief that the moral condition of society is deteriorating at a rapid pace.
Sociologists have interpreted moral panic as a device used to distract public attention from underlying social control over the working class and other potentially rebellious segments of society.
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To deviate: to 'move away' from something, particularly expected norms of a society or community.
Crime is defined as: behaviour which breaks laws allowing you to be punished by the legal system with some form of sanction
Deviance is defined as: behaviour which goes against all the norms, values and expectations of society, for example coming to school in just your speedos.