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crime and the modern world, Inequalities - Coggle Diagram
crime and the modern world
thatcherism
neoliberalism
massive damage to trade unions
taxes were reduced
Increases in inequalities between the different classes ( class polarisation)
public assets sold
privatisation
labour changed its policies
adopted many assumptions of thatcherism
ultimately lead to financial disasterr
social and economic legacies
4th bottom of 25 largest countries in the world
by 2008 income inequality was back t where it was 80 years ago
mental health and physical health deteriorates
higher drug use and rates of violence
market fundementalism
withdrawal of government from counter-cyclical macro-economics
privatisation of commonly held assets
Internal markets introduced into public enterprises
flaws in this market model
individualism
attacks on the idea of common welfare and the responsibility of individuals
success based on whetherr how hard you worked
Popular understandings of crime, disorder and ‘the other
Nationalism
Enemies within…’, othering and demonization
crime, criminality and law and order
hard on crime
in relation to the poor
key words
meticrossracy
deserved losers and winners
left & right politics
neoliberalism shift
the secondary sector jobs are decreasing
service jobs incresing
industial economy
crime and disorder act 1998
led to creation of ASBO
targets out of control youths
we became top of children incarcerated
8 of the richest people on the planet + same wealth as half the total population
Inequalities
inequality is rising
increase in poverty
increaced unemployment
negative social consequences
negative economic consequences
media representations of inequality are grossly misleading
270,000 people approached local authorities for homelessness assistant
job insecurity is increasing making the retirement age higher due to having to work for longer.
companies now focus on workers well-being instead of worsening issues such as stagnating wages
sociological imagination by CL Mills