Context Research For

First Idea- Answering

The Questions
Teenage boys taking away the
stereotype of boys causing trouble on
the streets.
 Question 1 What is the
stereotype of young boys?
• Boys are stereotype to be on streets
nowadays causing trouble and doing nothing
good for the community. They are the main
contribution to knife crime on the streets and
all there do is graffiti, make people to feel
unsafe on the streets and have no respect for
them. their loud they cause fights, shoplift,
vandalise property, just very antisocial
behaviour.
 Experts/Opinions- Qualitative
Research
• Experts:
-Tony Blair said people were "rightly fed up with
street corner and shopping centre thugs“.

• Opinions:
-Street rats, says Ainsley, 17. "That's what
they're called.""They sit on the street and
drink,"explains Lauren, 16. "They're
everywhere" adds Carly, 17. "Now they all sit on
the streets drinking and smoking." "rearing a
generation of hooded hoodlums"
 Statistics/Data- Quantive
• Mr Clarke said: Research
"Violent crime is still the biggest
challenge. It will be my number one priority to drive
down violent crime." He insisted that it had fallen when
the statistics were examined "in the round".
• His argument was supported by the BSC, based on
interviews with 40,000 adults, which found 9 per cent
fewer violent crimes.
 Question 2 Is this
stereotype true?
• The stereotype is getting worse, but not every
young teenage boy is part of this picture.
However this is portrayed a lot across the media,
music and news, although the news is always
negative, you cannot beat it. A lot of crime is
always happening, it has been happening before
are generation and it will continue to happen.
Crime has increase though over the time. People
who create can be more or less adults than
teenagers, teenagers just carry the blame for it
instead. The sterotype is only true to a few people
but not everyone.
 Experts/Opinions- Qualitative
• Experts:
Research
-"According to the report, British adults are also twice as likely than German adults to cross
the road when they encounter teenagers committing anti-social behaviour. Some of the
reasons Britons were too frightened to get involved included being physically attacked, fear
of reprisals and being verbally abused.But not one of these fears appears to be borne out by
the facts."
-Pam Hibbert, principal policy officer for Barnados, says that wearing hoodies and meeting
friends on street corners is all part of the growing up process.
She said: "We have become fearful of all children. We know for example young crime in itself
has remained fairly static in the past 10 years - it is a minority that cause problems and
retaliate. The demonisation of children and young people in some sections of the media and
when politicians refer to youngsters as yobs - that breeds the actual fear."
• Opinions:
-Sam, another young person upset by the report, told the BBC : "Respect seems to be
demanded here, why should we as a youth just give respect, it should be earned. The vast
majority of youth do these things as there is nothing else to do. It is simply a period
everyone goes through before they can get into the pubs. I have done a lot of the things
mentioned but I am at university studying politics now. It is a age-old argument but people
seem to have very short term memories, look back at cartoons from the 50 and 60's and it
was the same argument."
-Gemma, who also felt compelled to speak out, adds: "It is elderly people who think this and
stereotype all young people in the same category. Again it is the few who ruin life for the
rest of us. Not all young people are 'yobs' or 'tyrants'. If we were to stereotype older people
in this kind or biased way we would be told off!!!"
 Statistics/Data- Quantitive
Research

11-16 year olds are most likely to be victims of: being

threatened (26%), being bullied (23%), theft (15%), destruction
of property (14%), being physically attacked (13%)
Question 3 How are some boys
taking away this stereotype?
• Boys actually spend more of time, playing
sports and going to the gym, rather than
staying on the streets. Many boys enjoy sports
such as football and basketball and they would
spend most of their time going to extra school
activities, playing for their call teams in
matches . Some boys also attend many
different outside school activities and even
many attend youth clubs. Boys obviously go
out to socialise but this can be done in many
ways for example, cinemas, concerts, bowling,
etc just like any other teenagers would do.
 Experts/Opinions- Qualitative
Research
• To solve teenage crime I think we need more organisations
helping young people to get involved with activities.
• A lot of crime happens just because of boredom.
• I got involved in the Positive Futures programme back in
November last year.
• They came around to our estate, got to know us and asked
us what we wanted, what we needed.
• They arranged activities and trips for us that would keep us
off the streets, and also help us develop life skills.
• Now things are better for me. I've stopped hanging around
with certain people.
• I have a job and I'm sorting my life out.
• 17 year old James
 Statistics/Data- Quantative
Research
• between 1999 and 2007, overall
(police recorded) crime in London fell
by 12 per cent
 Question 4 How does the
media portray young boys?
• Teenagers are portray negative in the
overall media. When you look at the news
another teenager has been stabbed or shot.
The media rarely mention teenage boys
doing well or pasting their GCSEs. There is
always a twist to it something bad always
needs to happen in order for the media to
sell. Teenage boys are a threat to today's
society and you must cross the road when
you see a drop of boys on the other side.
 Experts/Opinions- Qualitative
Research
• Experts:
-Elaine Peace, UK director of children's services at NCH, the
children's charity, said that teenagers were more likely to be the
victim of a crime than the perpetrator: "Young people are 10 times
more likely to be actively volunteering in the community than
committing offences and young people are more likely to be
victims of crime than adults. The media is fuelling stereotypes of
children and the fear of young people. We should be highlighting
the fantastic work young people do in the community.

• Opinions:
The main stereotype is that we all walk around hooded up, going
around battering old ladies.
In the papers and the media they are making it out to be worse
than it is. It makes the older generation scared of teenagers.
We're not all yobs. We don't all go around mugging old ladies.
• the negative effect that this form of
music would have on today's youth.
With violence and drug use rising, one
must wonder, "What's the cause""
Though hip-hop is definitely not the
only cause, it doesn't help.
 Question 5 How does the
public now look at teenage
• boys?
Do they stereotype them for doing good or
causing trouble? Have they change their
views?
• This question is a rhetorical question, where
the audience look back on how they thought
teenage boys before and see what they
think of them now after hearing the answers
to the other questions.
• Maybe the government needs to still do
something about it set up more youth
activities, so that teenage boys have more
things to do.
• 54 per cent of Londoners say that crime is
one of their top three personal concerns,
this rises to 61 per cent for 18-34 year-olds
 Reflection Of First Idea-
After Research
• After finding my secondary research using
the internet, I was able to find a lot of
information about the stereotype and a lot
of expert opinions. If I was going to go
through with this idea I would be able to use
of statistics to prove the message of this
stereotype. In terms of expert and opinions,
it shows that I would be able to get sources
in order to film, so the viable of this
accessible.
 Sources
• http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/behind-the-stere

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/may/14/ukcrime.immigrationpo

http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/antisocialbehaviour/Asbo-blitz

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/murder-hunt-after-bo

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/may/13/ukcrime.boris

http://www.knifecrimes.org/uk-knife-crime-victims.html
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7115861.stm