Social changes that may increase crime in society, evaluate the possible impact on influencing criminal behaviour in Irish society.
Social changes that may increase crime in society, evaluate the possible impact on influencing criminal behaviour in Irish society.
This essay will cover how families become less traditional, and in turn how older styles of parental control on behaviours become weakened. How the electronic mass media such as film and television produce more and more images of crime and violence, and people find there lives more and more plausible. And finally how labour markets become more casual and insecure, and as more people enter the informal or underground economy, so people may start to look for alternative ways to survive. Crime especially in the informal economy may be one of these. These social changes will also be looked at on how they influence crime in Irealnd.
Traditional families are commonly known as a married couple with two children, but the term is also more than this. That is, belief in traditional families implies putting a high value on getting married and remaining married, opting for two-parent families over other ‘alternate lifestyles’ and taking the priority of putting your children before your job (Macionis 1999). But traditional families have decreased in the last couple of decades. Since 1960 traditional families have decreased from more than half to 27% in households and single parenting has risen from 10% to 25% of households (Popenoe 1993). The negative effects of the cultural trend toward weaker families are seen, as children receive less attention, crime rates rise with other negative behaviours like underage drinking, smoking, and premarital sex (Popenoe 1993).
As a result of the decrease in traditional families, older styles of parental control on behaviour become weakened (Macionis, 1999). This leads to anti-social behaviour and criminal acts among children and adolescents and then adults (Keijers, Loeber, Branje, Meeus, 2011). When these youths are tempted to commit an act of crime, they do not think about their parent (s) response and
This essay will cover how families become less traditional, and in turn how older styles of parental control on behaviours become weakened. How the electronic mass media such as film and television produce more and more images of crime and violence, and people find there lives more and more plausible. And finally how labour markets become more casual and insecure, and as more people enter the informal or underground economy, so people may start to look for alternative ways to survive. Crime especially in the informal economy may be one of these. These social changes will also be looked at on how they influence crime in Irealnd.
Traditional families are commonly known as a married couple with two children, but the term is also more than this. That is, belief in traditional families implies putting a high value on getting married and remaining married, opting for two-parent families over other ‘alternate lifestyles’ and taking the priority of putting your children before your job (Macionis 1999). But traditional families have decreased in the last couple of decades. Since 1960 traditional families have decreased from more than half to 27% in households and single parenting has risen from 10% to 25% of households (Popenoe 1993). The negative effects of the cultural trend toward weaker families are seen, as children receive less attention, crime rates rise with other negative behaviours like underage drinking, smoking, and premarital sex (Popenoe 1993).
As a result of the decrease in traditional families, older styles of parental control on behaviour become weakened (Macionis, 1999). This leads to anti-social behaviour and criminal acts among children and adolescents and then adults (Keijers, Loeber, Branje, Meeus, 2011). When these youths are tempted to commit an act of crime, they do not think about their parent (s) response and