marxist and neo marxist views

hebdige

done this

hall et al

neo marxist

policing the crisis

attempts to provide a fully social theory of deviance

he explains the crime of mugging in Britain in the 1970s

argues there was a moral panic about mugging which was associated with black youth, an exaggerated public concern over the morality and behaviour of a group in society.

the ruling class used black youths as a scapegoat and cleverly manipulated the population into becoming distracted from the real problems.

scraton

done this

willis

done this

CCCS

media drives subcultures rather than the other way round

truer today with the phenomena of social media