Exam Revision

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ExamRevision

• 2008

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Revision 2008

• Date of exam
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• Paper 2 hours
• 2 Qs
• I Compulsory I choice / 9
• Question 1
• 2 comprehension Question(s) based on seen text
  which refers to Chris Graylings speech to Demos

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Jeremy Kyle Generation

• "In too many places, in too many communities, we
  have a Jeremy Kyle generation of young men
  reaching adult life ill-equipped for it
• Lacking the right social skills. Lacking a sense
  of purpose and responsibility. Lacking
  self-confidence. Lacking the ability to seize on
  an opportunity and make the most of it. and as a
  result turning against the society in which they
  live.Family break-up often means that there is
  no father figure in childhood. Teaching
  recruitment patterns often mean there are few
  male role models at school.
• For those whose skills are not academic, the path
  into stable employment is much less clear than it
  was for past generations. And so while the craft
  jobs of today are occupied en masse by young men
  from eastern Europe, our own young men all too
  often hang around on the fringes, uncertain about
  where and how to build their lives

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• There was a danger of this continuing from
  generation to generation, Mr Grayling added
• "Our young boys are too often drawing lessons
  about life from footballers and celebrities who
  behave in monstrously inappropriate ways
• Accusing Prime Minister Gordon Brown of
  undermining the role of young men in society, he
  said "The New Deal and the welfare programme
  have been inadequate, the criminal justice system
  too soft.
• It is morally negligent to abandon so many young
  men, so, I want this speech to spark a debate
  about how to end the inequality of hope.
• We need to provide leadership in government to
  create a climate for the social entrepreneurs to
  flourish and re-engage young men.
• Second, we need to promote positive, socially
  responsible male role models and third, we need
  practical measures to combat family breakdown,
  worklessness and poor educational opportunity."

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Charles Murray

• Britain has a growing population of work-aged,
  healthy people who live in a different world from
  other Britons, who are raising their children to
  live in it, and whose values are now
  contaminating society
• (Murray in Sunday Times 26/11/89)

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Dennis Erdos(1993)

• Sociologists who are often regarded as
  culturalists.
• In Families without Fatherhood and
• Crime the Dismembered Family they seem to be
  siding with Murray argue that men are losing
  their traditional roles as breadwinners and
  fathers and have abandoned their responsibilities
  to kids (especially their sons).

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Cultures and Crimes Policing in Four
Nations(2005)

• In this work they concentrate on the Cultural
  drivers of crime
• However much we might try to improve policing,
  the real problem is the loss of internalised
  moral principles that prevent people from
  committing crimes in the first place.
• The rise in lawlessness reflects a decline in
  shared values, thanks to the cultural revolution
  of the 1960s, which subverted many institutions
  through which moral capital was generated - in
  particular, the family based on marriage.

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Young people who grow up in troubled and
dysfunctional households in which moral values
are not inculcated, who attend schools where
teachers are afraid or unwilling to teach the
difference between right or wrong, who live in
communities in which the influence of religious
faith is negligible, will naturally be drawn
towards the self-gratification and situational
ethics that predominate in contemporary culture.

• 'A society on a large scale or a small scale
  ceases to exist when its members lose the
  capacity to agree on what facts are true and what
  conduct is good'.
• Policing becomes impossible

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Underclass 10 Years on

• Its about behaviour that has created a
  lifestyle which is permanently dislocated from
  the habits and way of life of the majority. And
  at its very heart is the disintegration of the
  family with high rates of lone parenthood and
  teenage pregnancy and whole communities where
  committed fathers are unknown. These lives are
  often simply chaotic. The most alarming thing if
  you visit such areas is to see children who
  arent socialised so they cant even use a knife
  and fork they dont know what an alarm clock is
  because they have no sense of an ordered day
  primary school children who have no idea how to
  make social relationships but who are aggressive,
  foul-mouthed or withdrawn.
• Melanie Phillips (200119)
• Civitas website

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New Labour

• Having "two caring, loving parents" gives
  children a greater prospect of "making the most
  of their lives
• John Hutton
• (September2006)

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Breakdown Britain

• 70 of young offenders come from broken homes
• Majority have addiction problems and low levels
  of education
• Many brought up in violent dysfunctional
  families where marriage has disappeared
• As alternative to stable families they seek
  identity and protection on the streets from local
  gang membership
• Solution to support marriage keep families
  together
• (December 2006)

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The Jeremy Kyle Generation?

• "In too many places, in too many communities, we
  have a Jeremy Kyle generation of young men
  reaching adult life ill-equipped for it.
• Lacking the right social skills. Lacking a sense
  of purpose and responsibility. Lacking
  self-confidence. Lacking the ability to seize on
  an opportunity and make the most of it. and as a
  result turning against the society in which they
  live.
• Chris Grayling 11/2/08

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Choice of 1 essay from 9 titles

• i) Suicide and gender
• ii) Hate crime.
• iii) Class crime white collar crime
• iv) Safety Crime
• v) Youth culture moral panic or threat to
  social order?
• vi) Sexuality deviance.
• vii) Masculinity crime
• Viii) Child Abuse
• ix) Drug use normal or deviant?

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• Revision Techniques
• organise yourself
• organise your time
• organise your strategy
• e.g. share the work or work alone?
• Exam hints
• balance your time on each Q -
• see weightings
• read all questions
• ensure you understand what they are asking you
  to do
• answer the question asked i.e. keep to the
  point
• structure your answer
• e.g. use a plan
• support your answer from the literature the
  evidence.

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• Marking Criteria
• a) Knowledge Understanding
• -Recall important relevant concepts,
  perspectives, theorists works
• -Establish understanding through application of
  knowledge to answering question use of
  relevant examples
• b) Evaluation
• -Critically assess ideas
• -Strengths e.g.application?
• -Weaknesses
• e.g.inconsistency
• relevance?
• impartiality ?
• c) Presentation
• -Organisation,
• -Clarity of expression
• -Logical argument.
• -No (unnecessary) jargon.
• -No woffle.