Right Realist Theories of Crime and Deviance - Murray | A Level Sociology

welcome to this tutor to you sociology topic video on write realist theories of crime and deviance focusing on the work of charles murray for those who studied families and households the name charles murray will be synonymous with the new right perspective on the family but his work can also be applied to our

understanding of right realist approaches to crime and deviance murray advocated privatization of state services reducing state spending and individuals taking personal responsibility for themselves and their families he was inspired by neo-liberal economic policies murray argued that with less state spending there would be less need for higher taxation as people could use their own money that

they have earned to purchase services for themselves and their family instead of them being provided for them by the state which gave them more choice however murray's ideas spread from economic policy to social policies as well as he suggested that dependency on the welfare state to provide for certain people in society had led to

changes in the social class structure murray suggested that in contemporary society there exists a social class on the margins of society beneath a traditional working class there was a growing underclass of those in infrequent employment or unemployment and these ideas have been reinforced somewhat with the existence of the precariating savager al's analysis of the class

structure in the uk in 2013. for murray this underclass lacked socialization into the norms and values of mainstream society and he portrayed them as being amoral lacking traditional family values particularly citing the rise of lone parent families and absentee fathers he also expressed concern over the willingness of the underclass to work suggesting that they were dependent upon